Found quite a gem today. I've always installed the Windows Powertoys feature to get the "Open Command Window here" option when you right-click a folder in Explorer. I've discovered that this is not needed in Vista.

Consider how many times we’ve run into the following scenario: We’ve got a GUI design, say, a simple WinForm. Upon interaction with the form, we need to launch a CPU-intensive operation, one which might take a while. At some point the operation will complete and we want the result to show on the form. That’s where the problem starts...

My name is Angelo Martinez and I am new here at Falafel Software. I have known Lino Tadros for a long time and I can assure you that this is a great place to be! My hope is to start blogging on new ideas/tools/technologies that I discover along the way. With that in mind... I had a requirement to build a generic MRU (Most Recently Used) class based on a Key/Value pair. Among other things, the class contains methods such as Add(), Find() and a Count property that reports the number of items currently in the list. It would be nice to be able to build a set of unit tests to verify the functionality of the new class. For this, Visual Studio 2008 comes to the rescue!