From a Microsoft tutorial:

If the parameter value is hard-coded, comes from a Web control on the page, or is in any other source that is readable by a data source Parameter object, for example, that value can be bound to the input parameter without writing a line of code.

What the hell is wrong with writing code? For pity’s sake we’re programmers. What’s wrong with actually typing something in to a text file? Since when did we as programmers get elevated above the dirty business of writing code?

As someone smarter than me put it Whatever happened to programming?

And if you really think that not writing code is somehow saving time, read the incredible sequence of wizard twiddling to perform this relatively simple task . How the *fuck* is that better than writing code?