---
title: "One treeview I'm not going to download"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/21/one-treeview-im-not-going-to-download.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/21/one-treeview-im-not-going-to-download.html"
published: "2004-09-21T11:08:00"
updated: "2004-09-21T11:08:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Award for \"Most Trustworthy name for a control library\" goes to: CrapStuff TreeView . I kid you not."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# One treeview I'm not going to download

By Roy Osherove September 21, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 21, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Award for "Most Trustworthy name for a control library" goes to:

[CrapStuff TreeView](http://www.asp.net/ControlGallery/ControlDetail.aspx?Control=1014&tabindex=2).

I kid you not.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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