Pick up another monitor the other day to help me with this WCF client server development work I’m doing, one extra screen turned the job from a pain in the arse into a pleasure.

The picture below shows the server and console test app running from the PC underneath on the left hand screen and two instances of the client running from the laptop on the right hand screen.

The server has a timer in it which simulates production (the real reporting of production is the next job), the clients take these status updates and tick off the batches, the UI automatically updates via the data binding.

Next week I’ll be going back to the start of the app and checking what I’ve broken with the more recent changes and re-factoring some of the more curly bits of the UI code.