Setting Sail with the Smuggling Pattern :: Part 1

adronbhall.com — Maybe because I'm often entertained by the geekiest of things, I've started usage of the Smuggling Pattern named after a fellow software architect Matt Davis's terminology of smuggling data into and out of Excel. It is something that I've lately needed to do on a regular basis, get data into and out of Excel without Excel, or at least the evil COM Interop Model, really knowing what is going on. In other words, I want total programmatic control over data so I can trust it versus Excel mangling my poor data up. This is what the Smuggling Pattern is going to do for me, and it is doing it well. Now you might think, "WTF!" But just to clarify, the Smuggling Pattern is really the Builder Pattern that we architects know and love with a cooler more fun more pirate like name! So with that, here's some of that code, and the TDD process I undertook to get this sucker built to set sail.

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