New article published: LINQ, file resources, & menu building

Just published on DevX: "Using LINQ to Manage File Resources and Context Menus" (http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/41639)

This article takes a fairly simple technique involving LINQ-to-Objects and extension methods (both new concepts in C# 3.0) and uses it as the heart of two moderate complexity components that could themselves be immediately incorporated as building blocks in a production application. What is interesting is that the two components are quite different on the surface:

-- the ResourceMgr that manages an application's external (file) resources (http://cleancode.sourceforge.net/api/csharp/CleanCode.IO.ResourceMgr.html).
-- the MenuBuilder that initializes choices in a context menu upon opening it (http://cleancode.sourceforge.net/api/csharp/CleanCode.Forms.MenuBuilder.html).

I present a thorough discussion of the LINQ and extension methods that comprise the key portions of the code.

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