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The Composite Client Application Guidance is intended to make it easier to design and build modular WPF and Silverlight client apps with rich user interfaces and loosely coupled, independently evolveable, UI pieces.

a utility that will show which DLLs are loaded on Windows.

A thread in MSDN on how to do code signing to avoid the horrid "Unidentified program wants access" prompt.

A quick reference sheet for WIM and ImageX to explain core features.

Apart from a decent article on the new UI stuff in Vista ... this article includes a great tool for playing with the options for Vista's TaskDialog API so you can see what the options are and how they work.

how to connect to a SQL Server from JDBC (using Integrated Security)

How to "run as administrator" from scripts in Windows Vista.

New CLR libraries incladd-in hosting model, which was discussed in the last two editions of CLR Inside OutSupport for the Suite B set of cryptographic algorithms, as specified by the National Security Agency (NSA)Support for big integersA high-performance set collectionSupport for anonymous and named pipesImproved time zone supportLightweight reader/writer lock classesBetter integration with Event Tracing for Windows® (ETW), including ETW provider and ETW trace listener APIs

Pex (Program EXploration) automatically generates unit tests and suggests fixes for bugs it discovers ...

The latest version of Adobe's latest proprietary Flex technology (Flex 3.0) is now available with the RTM of Adobe Air. If you like Javascript (I don't), this may be the way for you to move forward to developing "real" cross-platform apps ...

PowerShell help for those of you with vb script experience.

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 ;-)

The documentation for Microsoft's Windows RSS Platform, or FeedManager ...

A step-by-step for how to set up and capture an image using Windows PE and ImageX that you can deploy onto other PCs.

Create your own custom special effects and transitions for Windows Movie Maker ... or make custom transitions, buttons, and menu styles for Windows DVD Maker!