Astonished by new programming techniques

There were so many new programming techniques surrounding us. If you do not take care of them, you would never be astonished by them. During I tried the practices of the book Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET, I found some new techniques.

I used Visio professional editing the UML structure. But this edition could not generate code from class structure. After checking on MS web, I knew Visio had several editions. And only Visio for Enterprise Architects had the ability of generating code. Visual Studio.Net Enterprise Edition had this Vision edition as its attachment. It's badly that now I used Visual Studio.NET professional edition. So I should change to some other choices.

During finding the solutions on web, I found some nice tools for programming in VS.NET. They were Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now. I tried Snippet Compiler and NUnit of them. To NUit, it was fitting the XP programming thinks. CR999 had introduced it in our lab last year. But I had not tried it more. After reading the article "Test-Driven C#: Improve the Design and Flexibility of Your Project with Extreme Programming Techniques", I thought I had been like it.

It's coincidental that VS.NET 2005 had integrated similar features like NUnit. After tried VS 2005, I found it was very convenient. Many others nice features were in VS 2005， such as unit test, refactor, and Team Test. I'd like to try it more.