That is what makes learning such an exciting and frustrating adventure. After years of working with one tool, when you need to accomplish something, you automatically choose a specific method out of hundreds. That choice is based on experience and trial and error over the years. It is daunting to be faced with thousands of options and having no idea and no experience to fall back on to know when you would choose one method over the thousands and when another of the options would be better.


>I think in VFP there must have been 100 ways to skin a cat.
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>In .NET there seemed to be a 1,000 ways to skin a cat.
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>Add in Linq and WPF and you seem to get about 10,000 ways to skin a cat.
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>Finding the best way to skin a cat is starting to feel like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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>(I think I just wrote a 1000 lines of code trying different ways to solve what seemed like a simple problem, some of them worked, some of them didn't. Final solution was one line of code and it works great! See I told you it was simple. <g>)