I have published my first ever project to CodePlex. Media Mogul is a media manager which will be written in WPF using the Prism methodologies, and will have pluggable video and music modules. The core features of the application are written as command line applications to allow power users access to the feature sets without needing the front-end.

When developing windows services one of the major issues are the testing of these services. In this article we develop a C# Windows Service that supports command line parameters and debug mode allowing for easy testing in development and remote server environments.

"Commenting is a royal pain in the posterior" - "Comments are for weenies" - "I can understand my code quite well, thank you very much" - "Good code speaks for itself" - "No time for that, got to get that code out of the door". None of these is a good reason for not commenting source code properly. We will look at these arguments, discuss them and take a look at good commenting practice and its benefits.