Matthew ".NET 247" Reynolds

I'm happy to tell you all about the beta of WinFX 247 at http://www.winfx247.com/.

Ever wonder how to build something that looks like the Google toolbar in .NET?  The ever magical Code Project has an article on how to do just that.

Sara Ford, VS Software Design Engineer, blogs about her accessibility experiences with VS .NET.

My friend, Russell Pooley has come up with a *sweet* WAP gateway that consumes the weblogs.asp.net RSS and makes it available over a WAP-enabled phone, like my shiny new Orange SPV E200.

...I find them tricky to interact with programatically, and no one ever looks at them anyway, but this morning, this quote from Chris Sells' Windows Forms Programming in C# really ticked me:

Windows' basic timing APIs tend to be inaccurate - sometimes by up to 15ms or so.  Peter Bromberg has an article on Egg Head Cafe on High Precision Code Timing in .NET.  The article includes a simple class that uses Windows' performance monitoring APIs to create a super accurate timer.

I've learned a *lot* about good Windows application design from reading the specification that an app must adhere to to get the “Designed for Windows XP” logo.
http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/software/default.mspx

I found this the other day and didn't have a chance to blog it at the time.