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At the last Edmonton Agile Methods User Group meeting, we had a brief discussion around code coverage, and what should be an acceptable number to shoot for.  Is it okay when the unit tests cover 80% of the code?  Or should 100% be the only acceptable value?  After all, how can you be confident in your code knowing that 20% of it isn’t tested.

Allow me to go out on a limb here, and state with absolute certainty that the correct answer is “It depends on your situation”.  Allow me to elaborate.

Last night (Thursday, June 26th) Rod Paddock gave a talk on using Silverlight 2.0 to the Edmonton .NET User Group.  I’d say that Rod did a pretty good job, despite the fact that the beta of both Silverlight and Expression Blend didn’t exactly want to play nice all the time.  It’s definitely perked my interest in the technology, and I can see a lot of business potential for it.

The rich user experience that Silverlight brings to the web-browser, will, I think raise the bar for what web applications will do for businesses.  Forget all the buzz about ASP.NET MVC or MonoRail or ASP.NET 3.5.  This is just another layer of makeup on the tired, old, hooker that is application development in .NET.  Silverlight is what will make business users oh and ah and get excited about web apps again.