There are often some startlingly bad practices in some of the Microsoft sample code. I've worked with an SDK where the majority of the example projects would c

There are often some startlingly bad practices in some of the Microsoft sample code. I've worked with an SDK where the majority of the example projects would crash out before illustrating the point of the example, because event callbacks that were hit by the code executed in the sample were just stubbed in with throw new NotImplementedException();