I've read several blog posts over the last several weeks about the direction Microsoft has gone in their product naming, but I thought that Chris Anderson summed up my feelings well: "yes, 'WPF' is pronounced 'Avalon'... the WPF is silent"

Doing a lot of XML documentation?  Well, the QuickdocViewer VS2003 Add-In may be for you.  It allows you to quickly preview changes made the to documentation - very handy.

You know the rule that says you're not supposed to put too many words in a dialog because it's overwhelming?  Well, I would like to respectfully submit to the VS team that they follow this advice - especially in this case:

To a new developer, this many words in a single dialog translates to "You have experienced a catastrophic error and should run for your life" when in fact, all it really means is "You just opened a solution for the first time!" (after being brought down from source control.)  It would be nice if the wording on this dialog could be changed to something more to the effect of "Congratulations on your new solution!"

I got a new computer recently.  Here's my setup:

• Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion
• Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
• Graphics Card: eVGA 128-P2-N368-TX Geforce 6600GT 128MB
• Power Supply: Rosewill RP500 ATX 500W Power Supply
• CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
• RAM: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB
• HD: HITACHI Deskstar T7K250 0A31636 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s

I was interested to test out the 64-bit version of Windows, and I was pleasently surprised with the number of drivers that came preconfigured with the installation.  After the install process, my LCD monitor even came up at 1600 x 1200 with no video driver installation - impressive (I'm easily entertained.)  BUT after I started to get all set up with my standard home workstation software, I found that Cisco's VPN client refused to install on x64 Windows!  This is not good!  So I did what any good nerd would do... Google!  Unfortunately with no success.  You know, if you can't connect to your work computer with your primary home computer, that's a problem!  Long (boring) story short, I am now running Windows XP 32-bit which is uber less exciting (and nerdy.)  Let me know if you find a 64-bit Cisco VPN client!