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Discussion on: How Do You Balance Passion Projects & Professional Commitments?

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Ralph Hightower

What's done at work is work. What I do outside of work is my time. I got inspiration from a Microsoft blog post announcing VSTO, Visual Studio Tools for Office, that provides the ability to read/write Office files and interact with the Office applications.
Hmmm... Read an Excel file that has events and create events in Outlook's calendar. Perfect! I'll create a Windows file that reads NASA Excel files that they published for the Space Shuttle's missions. I published the code on Microsoft's now decommissioned CodePlex website.