A few days ago, I promised to tell what I've been up to for the last couple weeks. I blame Microsoft.

In October, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 (which supports the .Net 2.0 framework). About two weeks ago, I got my copy.

I have a couple of work projects that were written in C# (Under Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio .Net 2003) that need some updating. I realized that I should learn about the new features in the 2.0 framework in a seperate project before tackling my older projects. This left me with the dilemma of deciding what to work on.

I've been evaluating trouble ticket systems for the last year or so, but I've never found one I liked enough to implement at work. So i've decided to write one.

It's been two weeks (as of tomorrow morning) since I started the project (called GHelp). Originally, I'd envisioned this as being a couple of days worth of work, but to get the functionality I really want out of it (and to be able to market it as well), it's going to be a couple of months.

I've got a lot of the functionality worked out, but there's still a lot of implementation to be done.

As a teaser, I'm including a few images from the project in the full text of this article.