This one was a lot of fun... We needed something to help audit our systems. On the surface a simple task, but this is one of those cases when one thing leads to another and pretty soon you’re on your way to developing enterprise services (boggle). There are a lot of nifty features here, but since this is for the geeks in the house, this included tons of owner-drawn stuff using GDI+ and more brute-force pagination than I ever want to repeat again :-)... To round things out, are sprinkles of XML/XSD, serialization, interoperability with the Windows Instrumentation Engine, SOA based services, and a partridge in a pear tree. This also gave me a chance to explore some IUI concepts in human engineering and process automation. Although I developed this on my own time this has gotten some attention and may grow up to be something larger in the future.
Tags: side projects