Matthew ".NET 247" Reynolds

Lutz may be famous for Reflector, but for those of you needing a menu and toolbar library, his CommandBar for .NET is worth a look.

I've been meaning to blog for a while on mind mapping, but I see that Tim Sneath has blogged about it here.

I've long been an advocate of hosting Remoting objects in an application's own Windows Service.  However, I always knew that there was this "other way" of doing it in IIS (some would argue that I have this the wrong way round!).  A new MSDN article ".NET Remoting Architectural Assessment" has plenty to say on Remoting best practice. 

(I am trying not to rant and rave about this - this just causes me a serious headache!)

Here it is:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20030729CLRGN/manifest.xml

NewsIsFree appears to have an RSS feed of the last ten items posted to Microsoft Downloads...
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I've run into a couple of weird Windows Forms problems today.  In VS .NET 2002, when I used to bring up the call stack on an event handler (”OnWhatever...”), I used to see all of the Framework calls that got me from the last call in my own code to the call I'm actually debugging.  Although you can't see the code behind these calls (they're compiled and you have no debug info), they're often useful for getting a hint about what's happening in the Framework assembly by reading the method names. 

Today's quickie tip comes from the world of Win32 best practice.