The Daily Grind 1036 by Mike Gunderloy Friday, December 15, 2006

Wind storm = power failure = delayed publication.

• ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 RC - Getting pretty close to release here. The ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Futures December CTP gives you some extras to go along with it. 
• Introducing QuickCounters... - Open source project to make it easy to implement performance counters in .NET. (via Tomas Restrepo)

• 5 Things You Can Do With Old Hard Drives - I hate to think of how many old hard drives I have around here. Enough that this sort of article is actually useful. (via digg)

• Microsoft Statement: More Information on Windows Vista Software Protection Policies - Microsoft is crowing that they're about to pull the rug out from under one of the Vista piracy hacks (mixing test keys with final bits). Interestingly, the statement doesn't mention the other widespread pirate hack at all (using a corporate key server running in a VM). Could it possibly be that the big brains at Microsoft didn't take that scenario into account?
• Microsoft Releases Bug-Fix Version of Visual Studio 2005 - VS2005 SP1 is in the pipeline.
• A short list of WPF/E examples - Michael Schwarz has collected links from all over.
• Interacting with 2D on 3D in WPF - More and more it seems to me that the mission of the WPF team is to enable bad user interfaces.

• .NET Developer Software Charity Auction - Bid on software, help bring fresh drinking water to Malawi.
• Looks like the Share Your OPML site is the latest victim to the blog spammers, and no one is cleaning up the mess. Pity.

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