Back in September 2008 I created ‘WHY’ a C#.NET Click-Once Windows forms application for fun. I admittedly do not do many ‘fun’ projects and most of my projects are very business type focuses because this is how my dad influences my programming. However, I have always liked this application because it’s just fun but very geeky.
Here is the idea… what is the answer to why? Why not of course! It’s the punch line of the cocky college student who answers the question to a professor with Why Not and gets that A+ where everyone else is trying to do the same essay and write these crazy long essays and get lower grades. This program though is different because once I runs it’s covering the entire screen and prevents trying to exit the application. Although it’s not entirely successful in keeping the user from killing(stops alt-f4 but at the time I never figured out much more than that) it it’s good enough for someone who doesn’t know that much about the computer to see them unable to get out of this age old question.
Another fun feature in this application is the ‘stop it’ button… So you want out then? That sucks cause the only thing that button will do for you is make a pop-up window show up telling you to answer the question… But it gets so much funnier when someone who is very angry and kind of stupid keeps clicking the button and gets 10 pop-up windows telling them they have angered the program and it will bother them this way every time after that that they click the button.
HAVE FUN! Prank someone today! I think I’ll be releasing the code to GitHub or at least updating the app with some more features like… real blocking so a user is rendered defenseless to this application.
http://updates.chrisportela.com/why/
