Matthew ".NET 247" Reynolds

Burble... Scott Hanselman has put together perhaps the most awesome developer tools list I've ever seen. 

System.Net.WebRequest is a damn useful class for putting data back from a Web server.  However, if you did into its code, you can find a weird design decision that may have a significant impact for those writing certain kinds of applications.

Slashdot is running a review of Dan Appleman's e-book “Hijacking .NET”.

I'm afraid I can't remember where I found this, but a blog I found in the very recent past spoke about the ObsoleteAttribute.  (I think it was some MSDN content by Kit George - apologies for not being able to credit properly!)

This morning, on the drive to work I was thinking about some code I had to write today that had to shut down the PC after it had finished.  Aware that I could use ExitWindowsEx to the job, I wasn't relishing - as I never do - declaring said method so that I could call it from managed code.

Tomas Restrepo is reporting that Virtual PC is now available for download from MSDN subscriptions.  It is indeed, and it can be found under Platforms\Connectix Virtual PC 5.2 is you sign in.

Via Chris Sells, Eric Parker offers a cool template based code generation tool.

A note from Jeff Key points us all in the direction of displaying a cool validation balloon on text boxes...