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In my previous post I mentioned how my week went, kinda. I just want to elaborate a bit and share some other tidbits. So I started my new job, on the 5th of January. My career goal for 2009 is to become a great C# developer, not just for web, but for any platform. Programming for different platforms present different challenges, but the C# at the core remains pretty much the same, so its worthwhile becoming proficient at C#. During the week I was asked to code a C# application that auto-generated label creation with data. Initially I thought this task to be way beyond anything I could ever have done, simply because so much of my previous development effort was aimed at the web platform. So I started off with my trusty old friend Google and started reading some C# Word automation samples, and started out with this simple Microsoft Knowledge Base Article, and progressed to reading several articles on the Microsoft Word Object Model. I find that breaking a project down into smaller functional areas first, helps with making sure you understand how a specific piece of functionality works, from which you can build more complex functionality.