Free .NET FX 3.0 (WPF, WF and WCF) eLearning

Collection 5134: Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio® 2005 is free until the new notice.
What's included?

This collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics teaches about the new capabilities provided by the .NET Framework 3.0. These clinics are for experienced Developers and Software Architects who are looking to adopt Microsoft's next generation technology within their solutions.

Topics covered within the collection include:

* Windows Presentation Foundation
* Windows Workflow Foundation
* Windows Communication Foundation

Link: https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=109340


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Bluescreen

My first bluescreen comes on Vista beta1 when RC1 release. Today, I got the first bluesceen on RC1, so maybe RC2 is out? Checked it I notices, that I was right. New MS conceptual touch to notice users about OS upgrades by using bluescreen?

Improve your Vista's network speed

Windows Vista by default supports IPv6 protocol. Actually, there is very small number of internet providers support it those days. So, each time you are requesting any DNS address, your Vista trying to get it by IPv6 protocol, and after timerout by your old good IPv4. So just unselect checkbox of IPv6 support in your network card properies and Vista will work much faster with each internet query. Good luck ;)

Applications = code + markup

Got first really good WPF book of Charles Petzold "Applications = Code + Markup", BUT what's going on with code samples? Let's take a look: In MedievalButton example (as well as all over the samples) author using InvalidateVisual() method in each possible hole. What do you think will happend with performance? I'm not very experienced in WPF, but prety know CPP and C# programming. Invalidate context each time is VERY BAD CONCEPT, but maybe I'm wrong

So, WPF

So, WPF. After long delay, I started the MS-SAP project. It's promise to be very interesting, but who knows?

First

Let's see what we have here?