When your code is reused

I am back from a weeks break in one of my favorite places - the Outer Banks in North Carolina.  After much sun, playing with my new toy and getting to spend quality with the family - it is time for a "just back" blogpost.  I am sifting through the inevitable pile of email and came across something that warms my heart ...

It is always a great compliment when something you developed is used in places that you never imagined.  I wrote this article in June 2004 to share my sorting method using late binding which has proven to be very useful to thycotic on various projects over the years.  I have received lots of feedback on Thycotic.Collections since then including very useful performance tweaks from Niels Lunn (thank you!).

Today I was informed by John Winstanley that he has included Thycotic.Collections in a new set of CodeSmith templates that he has put together as a rapid starter kit to get developers up and running with ASP.NET and a SQL Server back end.  John, as you can guess, is using Thycotic.Collections for its generic sorting power in his DataDictionary class.

Where has your code been reused in a surprising way?