I saw this post from Jeremy Allaire, a really smart guy whom I had the pleasure of working for when I lived in Boston.  Anyway, this project that Paul is working on looks very interesting.  I will definitely check this out!

I downloaded and tried out the new IntraVnews Outlook RSS Reader.  It looks pretty cool and it's free too!
It has a few things that NewsGator does not, including: Auto Cleanup and saving blogs to different folders.
(Really helps if you have multiple .PST files).  Of course, it is missing things that NewsGator has as well, including:
NNTP support, Posting,  and better custom field support for views.

Protect Your PC

Interesting.  But I don't remember hearing anything about that at PDC...

I noticed that a lot of the PDC sessions that I went to were not only filled up but the hallways outsides the room with the TV were filled and overflowing.  Maybe I just picked the popular sessions!   I noticed it a lot with the Indigo sessions.

Has anyone figured out a way convert MSBuild project files back to VS.NET 2003 project files?

I started up the PDC Community Application as soon as I got home because I had used it to download all the powerpoint presentations and code samples from the sessions that I attended or wanted to attend.  It worked real nice while I was at PDC.  When I was viewing a session, there was a link to view the powerpoint or code samples (which are saved locally on my computer).

Well, I am at the "Indigo" What's Next for Connected Applications and Web Services and well I just got to hear the team sing All we are saying, is give SOAP a chance!

I absolutely love the PDC Community Application!!  (http://pdcvibe for those of you @ pdc).  You can see screen shots of it at Kirk Allen Evan's Blog. 

Well, I had numerous computer problems but I am back online now.

For geeks out there like me who keep an up-to-date bootable Windows XP cd with unattended setup and all hotfixes and service packs applied... 

I had a need to set the dirty bit for a user control or form and I started looking for a common event that all controls shared like "Changed" or "Modified".  Not having found such a thing, I started searching and I came across Erik Porter's ControlArray (for which he was selected Code Hero BTW).   Now I had to make some modifications to his control (and port it over to C# because my VB.NET skills are non-existent)  but the end result was I had a component that fit my needs with room to grow!

I changed the following:  

I mentioned a great add-in for Lutz Roeder's Reflector in a previous post.  It was written by Jason Bock and it allows you to select an assembly inside of Reflector and hit "Save Files"  and it generates all the csharp files for that assembly.  You can also select an individual class and do the same thing. The only thing was that coded for Reflector 3.2.5.0 and somewhere between then and now there have been a lot of API changes.  Well the good news is that Jason has rewritten his add-in for version 3.4.0.0!!   Thanks Jason!!

It looks like I missed a couple of the vbAccelerator updates last month.  They updated their:

I hate it when this happens!!

Marcie mentioned that GridView is going to be the successor to the DataGrid control in the next version of .NET.  Does this mean that she will soon be known as "GridView Girl"? (I see that she has already snagged up the name GridviewGirl.com...) 

I have been using this great add-in for Lutz Roeder's Reflector.  It is written by Jason Bock and it allows you to generate the source files from an assembly and save them to your hard drive!  Unfortunately, it only works with version 3.2.5.0 of Reflector.   (I think Reflector is now up to 3.3.1.0)  Jason was kind enough to provide the source code but it looks like Reflector has gone through a lot of changes since 3.2.5.0. 

Well, after reading Scoble's post about Intel giving away free wireless, I thought I would check it out.  I had to run to Border's during lunch to buy a copy of Chris Sells' new book: Windows Forms Programming in C#  (which looks great BTW...) and I thought I would take my pocket pc with to try it out.  I get there and their system is down so I can't check on a couple of other books I wanted to find so I decided to get online!