Chapter 5. Code Reusability in ASP.NET
So far in this book, we’ve built complex pages that employ sophisticated DataGrid and interoperable controls. Although the .NET Framework is a slim and elegant hierarchy of classes for building Web projects, many of you will end up with unwieldy blocks of code and layout information, and when the complexity of a software component grows beyond a certain threshold, reusability and encapsulation become serious issues. Years ago, someone coined a phrase to describe this programming phenomenon: spaghetti code.
Originally, spaghetti code referred to the messy tangle of lines of BASIC that resulted from unsparing use of GOTO statements and a modular programming style. It’s also an apt description of unstructured, ...
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