I figure people might not be able to do stuff i do in my blog because they don't have their environment setup like mine.

Let's first talk about what i needed.(this is all free except vs btw, if you got no money for VS you can use visual c# express but the automation extensions and factories won't work as far as i know)

1. Visual Studio 2005 Pro (standard will do anything i do except windows services and deployment packages with windows installer)
2. Sql express 2005 advanced and the Toolkit http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/
3. Windows Vista and .Net 3.0 SDK http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C2B1E300-F358-4523-B479-F53D234CDCCF&displaylang=en
4. Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f54f5537-cc86-4bf5-ae44-f5a1e805680d&DisplayLang=en
5. Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) And Guidance Automation Tookit (GAT) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718949.aspx
6. Enterprise library (i'm on 2.0 but will be trying 3.0) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480453.aspx
7. Webservice factory ( use the WCF c# one , december 2006)  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480534.aspx

That should give you a sane development environment to do the things I do in the future on this blog. Plus now you can reference this blog now anytime someone asks you where to get all the stuff above.

You might want workflow, i'm going to explore it soon i just haven't yet.