somebody punch me!
Monday, October 24th, 2005man, i’m upset with myself right now! I just had my interview and totally botched a SUPER easy question!
“name some of the events that fire during a page’s lifecycle…”
ugh, this should have been SO simple but my rusty mind just drew a blank! I got Init but completely forgot about PreRender, Render, etc. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! MAD!
The other questions weren’t too bad…
“Dataset vs DataReader” — freakin’ softball!
“Remoting” — I said I understood the remoting concept but had written zero lines of code for remoting. I then mentioned that in today’s “service oriented architecture” and “the web as a platform (web services)” that tightly coupling objects through remoting just didn’t seem like a good design. As luck would have it, the interviewer said that MS had recently issued a decree that service platforms should move towards SOAP and away from remoting…sweet! I didn’t know that! It’s nice to get points for NOT being able to answer a question. 
“tell me the role of the CLR” — wasn’t too bad…MSIL, JIT, blah blah blah
“reflection” — run-time type inspection…though I couldn’t come up with a good example of where it would make good sense to use reflection…
“what are the benefits of stored procs” — performance, simplicity of calling, probably a less likely chance of injection attacks due to typed parameters…
The interview only lasted about 30 minutes and I was really hoping for some more grilling! I just really hope i came off as knowing something…time will tell, I guess.