Normally I don't post about life stuff but this is code related. Last night I went to the first edmonton .NET user group meeting and had a great time. Jean-Paul Boodhoo was the presenter and did a great talk about test driven development amongst other things.I have read about TDD and all sorts of patterns books but found them hard to know when to apply them in the real world. JP's presentation was a begging to middle (we ran out of time unfortunately) coding sesssion using TDD to build an application. The cool thing was that we built the application from the presentation tier down pretending that other...

Here is an interesting article about number grouping in different countries.http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/04/17/577483.aspx

NOTE: I have not finished this post but my blogging engine does not support drafts apparently. Take it as it is:Often I have the need to do a task before or after my build.i.e.1. uninstall then reinstall a com+ component2. run unit tests3. start another programThe main one I use is the com component and here are the steps for creating this:1. Add a new "Makefile Project" to the solution (Found under C++ projects).2. Right click the project in solution explorer and select properties. Change the configuration type to utility.3. On the visual studio toolbar click project and then select...