I still can't believe that I'll ever be involved in a project that entails writing a parser. My first crack at writing one was for my college thesis. If I remember correctly, it was part of a C language interpreter which the panel of judges deemed useless since compilers for C were already available. It was so painful to hear that comment since the interpreter did work.
Well I guess, the work I put into that project has finally paid off since our HL7 parser is well on its way, after only less than 24 hours of coding and testing. I was really feeling nostalgic while sketching the state transition diagrams on blank sheets of paper. Ofcourse having those drawings transferred to Visio was really cool.
NUnit is really one heck of a tool. Without it, I could be mired in creating test projects for all the possible use cases for days. Contrast that to writing your testing code side by side with your application code.
Alan Cooper once said, that programming is like digging the Panama Canal with a spoon, and with .NET programming is still hard but it's like digging the Panama Canal with a backhoe. I guess with NUnit you can say that programming is still hard but it's like digging the Panama Canal with two backhoes.
You now can export your ClassicReport documents to Xps as shown below. I'm also experimenting with this auto-zooming report viewer. Check them out.
