• The Vista Shell Blog publishes a list of keyboard shortcuts for Vista.
• Roman published a very comprehensive list of WPF bloggers.
• csharpformat is a site with a script that generates Html for C#\Xml\etc. code snippets. Very useful for blogging…
• There are some updates on Google Finance. There are now comparison charts, new chart settings and features, more market data, and the ability to import portfolios from other sites.
  I only wish it had information from Tev Aviv’s stock market, or that one of the Israeli finance sites (globes? themarker?) would provide us such user experience.
  Yahoo! Finance also has added new features as well…

I tossed up this XAML button style over the weekend (OrangeGelButton.xaml (6.78 KB)):

Robby Ingebretsen (ex-MS WPF PM) from notstatic.com released his new XAML editor today – Kazaml.
Unlike XAMLPad which, other than displaying a given XAML, had no helpful features, this new editors features:

Last Friday I logged off my messenger account and I never managed to sign back in again.My Windows Live Messenger simply refused to sign-in. At first I thought this was some sort of connection problem but I discovered that other machines at my home connect fine. So I decided to blame Vista (I recently installed RC2) and installed MSN Messenger 7.5 which worked fine.

• Ted Patrick defines Web 2.0 and makes some pretty valid points about what users should expect in future applications.
• Some info from Techworld about Java running on Vista.
  I think thats the first time I ever mentioned Java on my blog. Nice…
• Everything you need to know on WPF styles and triggers is a new article published on Microsoft’s Belgium site.
• Apple ships its new iPod Video loaded with a virus and blames Microsoft. If Windows is that bad why isn’t apple using its own Mac OS X ?

And on other matters, I guess the fact that my post suggesting an alternative paper for the NY Times Reader developers got kicked, and not by me, means that there are others who think like me…
It’ll be funny if it gets to the main page…

• I found a new WPF blog by Pavan Podila’s. Pavan does some really cool stuff with WPF and has some great examples on his blog. Especially check out the Genie Effect and the Water Ripple Effect.
  There’s also information about exporting Illustrator graphics to XAML.
• Following my post about free .NET 3.0 Training Material, I received a link from Guy Burstein to a blog post that points to many other Microsoft e-learning courses:
  https://blogs.msdn.com/hied_mid-atlantic/archive/2006/10/16/microsoft-e-learning-courses-office-2007-and-more.aspx

Even though the NY Times Reader application is very cool, I think there are better ways to reach to the hearts of the people and sell them this new WPF technology.
After all, I think most downloads for this app are done by techies like me, who may spend few hours playing with it just to see the capabilities and then move to something else. Maybe New Yorkers may find this a bit more interesting but still, the evangelists at Microsoft could have thought of a better application to spread the word.

I recently had to give an overview presentation of Microsoft’s new .NET 3.0 technologies at work.
Since I don’t like writing or giving long PowerPoint presentations I decided to cut down as much as possible on slides and talk my way through a bunch of demo applications demonstrating the various aspects of .NET 3.0.
So, here’s a bunch of good demos to demonstrate .NET 3.0 capabilities:

I recently received this question from a reader:

Hi Eran,

for Duet the following main components are needed: Duet server and Add-On server. In the following I listed a couple of questions related to the Duet system landscape:

Next on the line are the planned value packs…