Add complex customization to form or create two forms?

I’m working in a WPF application that both imports and exports delimited text files. At both ends, there is a UserControl which encapsulates some logic about delimiter configuration. It has some controls for individually selecting delimiters, and a ‘Presets’ dropdown for quickly selecting certain common combinations such as CSV.

Is there ever a reason to do all an object’s work in a constructor?

Let me preface this by saying this is not my code nor my coworkers’ code. Years ago when our company was smaller, we had some projects we needed done that we did not have the capacity for, so they were outsourced. Now, I have nothing against outsourcing or contractors in general, but the codebase they produced is a mass of WTFs. That being said, it does (mostly) work, so I suppose it’s in the top 10% of outsourced projects I’ve seen.

Do stored procedures violate three-tier separation?

Some colleagues of mine have told me that having business logic in stored procedures in the database violates the three-tier separation architecture, since the database belongs to the data layer whereas stored procedures are business logic.

Access functions from user control without events?

On some generic functions, it seems that accessing a function on mainform directly from the usercontrol is easier than raising an event. For example: A function on main form that displays one desired usercontrol centered and tweaked.

Why is CSS3 doing animations?

Like what the title says, why are there animations in CSS3?

Is the separation of program logic and presentation layer going too far?

In a Drupal programming guide, I noticed this sentence:

terminology for upward devolution from modules to framework

Is there a word for the problem of a framework becoming married to the software modules it supports, for example adding methods to a base class that may apply only to certain subclasses or use cases? It’s a particular kind of violation of separation of concerns.

How can I cleanly separate first open tutorial code from my regular display code under OOP?

I have a MVC architecture, and I have the basic views completed. I now need to add the first user tutorial mode into the project. I don’t want to add checks for first user state in all the views that need it, but the only alternative I can think of is to subclass everything and use those subclasses on first open. Is there a standard or widely-used practice for adding support for tutorials, etc. without making a mess of everything?

What kind of abstraction/SoC should I use here?

I am starting a new project, and I want to follow the separation of concerns pattern, and I have been reading on the topic, and now I am in doubt of how I should go about this.

Storing in-text metadata in a discrete data structure

I am developing an application which will need to store inline, intext metadata. What I mean by that is the following: let’s say we have a long text, and we want to store some metadata connected with a specific word, or sentence of the text.