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Michael Howard's blog post about SAL(Standard Annotation Language) and how you can improve security by annotating your function declarations.  There's some seriously cool stuff here that could really save you some major headaches.

Run your TI on your desktop

Use your TI calculator in Windows!

Another great example of a custom type extension - adding a ToBase64 onto Strings

This article about accessing Alternate Data Streams in PowerShell is very interesting because it shows how easy it is to EXTEND a TYPE in PowerShell with some simple XML and a few lines of code.  VERY cool.

David Hayden writes a couple of tutorials and gives some explanation of how the Policy Injection Application Block in Enterprise Library 3.0 really is Aspect Oriented Programming ... and there's a good screenshot there of the various "matching rules" ...

It's kind of a shame that Microsoft couldn't bring themselves to use AOP terminology to describe this: weaving instead of "injection" ... etc.  It would really have made it easier to follow for the new users and would have lent some validation to AOP research and development

Very good read (particularly their evaluation of weaving methods).

Although as a result their "Policy Injection" application block isn't as powerful as most of the straight-up AOP toolkits out there, it does have a *huge* upside: not only is the code produced by this supportable by Microsoft Product Support, it's now officially part of the Patterns and Practices recommendations!

The down side is that the only injectable objects are ones created through a "Factory" method (you can't just use the *new* constructor) this brings some performance hits ... but then, you get the ability to separate concerns and apply policies and even business rules after the fact!

AOSD tools from Microsoft? 

QUOTE: "the Policy Injection Application Block will simplify the separation of business logic from cross cutting concerns, by letting you define policies and the objects/methods they apply to in a declarative way."  -- if that's not Aspect Oriented, then I must have wasted my time in school ;-)

In Vista, Windows Explorer is applying an implementation of the IFileIsInUse interface to the file it encountered.  Now the user knows which program has the file open and can close the file from that program and click the Try Again button to repeat the operation that was being performed.

WPF has two ways to create documents: XAML Flow documents paginate dynamically and flow into multiple columns at different zoom levels, etc. XPS documents are print ready documents on a fixed page size.  Converting Flow documents to XPS isn't hard, even when you want to take advantage of the extra features like custom pagination, page size, margins, and headers or footers.

This is (finally) a Windows-compatible PORT of Growl -- not merely a Growl-like application, like "Snarl" or "Grumble", but actually an API-compatible Growl. Oh, and it can pop up notifications from web apps, what?

There's a contact synchronization sample highlighted here which includes synchronizing contacts between Outlook, Vista Contacts and VCard files. Not only do I need this app ... it really shows off the concept of data mapping between disparate data sources.

A Preview of what's new in Team Foundation Server 2008 with SP1 ... this SP1 thing is shaping up to be a major release...

Illuminating insight into the future possibilities of writing apps based on Live Mesh

Tips for programmers doing presentations and code demos...

PowerTools for Visual Studio Tools for Office

If you're developing Office-based apps, these look like a must-have.