Microsoft released training material, which usually costs money, for free. Check these 3 out:

I really got annoyed today by the fact that I could not perform a simple task of setting the Icon property of my WPF window
from codebehind. I tried using the following code:

Ron Garret wrote an interesting post about the top 10 geek business myths.

Since I’ve started my new career as a venture capitalist I have become keenly aware of some of the classic mistakes that geeks make when trying to raise money for a new business. Instead of writing the same comments over and over again I thought I’d try to summarize some of the mistakes that people — especially smart people — make when they decide to try to turn their bright ideas into money. Here then is my top-ten list of geek business myths…

Here is a set of flash demos covering Duet 1.0 functionality as well as what is planned for Duet’s first value pack.

Viva Windows-Now blogs…

Thats the 2nd “Orcas” CTP this month. This one, dubbed “The September CTP” is only available as a Virtual PC Image and seems to integrate a lot more feature rather than just delivering “Cider” as they have been doing so far.
You can [download it from here](https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82243606-d16d-445c-8949-9ee8c10cda2e&DisplayLang=en ““Orcas” September CTP”).

https://searchsap.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid21_gci1209903,00.html
This quiz is designed to provide a quick reality check of your understanding of Duet as it stands today.

I just came across this post by Seema Ramchandani, a WPF PM, saying that WPF will not have hardware acceleration for
layered windows on Windows XP. Nick also elaborates that while there were plans to support this, it was unreliable and sometimes even slower than software rendering.

I have been playing a lot with WPF ever since the RC1 release and I simply love it.
Eyecandy user experience is finally easy to create without a significant amount of effort and code.

Microsoft Downloads page was just updated with the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Development Tools for .NET Framework 3.0 RC1.
The download is available here.