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The last one of these was almost a month ago on July 7th. The usual excuses apply: way too busy, travel, too much work. I have accomplished a lot today: wrote a lot of unit tests and a whole bunch of C# classes to represent the structure of many concepts in my product as well as teaching and selling a co-worker on NUnit. So I am going to allow myself the time to clear out my flagged blog posts. I will have to blast them out in fire-hose mode from oldest to newest (I hope). Take a deep breath and away we go:
Yes, as David Chappell writes workflow is being added to Windows (I can't say anymore than he does) and I am in huge agreement with “Why Workflow Matters,“ especially since a great deal of my daily life is in workflow now
3Leaf's most excellent CEO and Microsoft expert, Sean Cambell has a hell of a great article on the brand new ability of VSTO 2K5 to develop managed add-ins. Boy, is this a needed capability and this is a great article to get started.
Peter Golde, one of the original designers of the C# language, has been working recently on Power Collections for .NET, which is now released. According to the web site, Power Collections is a "Community Project to Develop the Best Public License Collection Classes for .NET". The documentation gives a good, quick overview of the functionality {verbiage and link from Scott Wiltamuth]
Good article on Using VSTS to do Test-Driven Development. Let's say I'm not buying a lot of it, and this subject, upon prodding by some of my readers, I will revisit soon