I’m a huge fan of the LUA support in Vista. It has it’s quirks but it’s a major step forward for Windows programming. As a former *nix guy I’ve had to run LUA the hard way before Vista. The support in Vista is tons better than it used to be.

I’ve been an avid fan of running as a limited user account (LUA) for almost all of my computing career. It’s in large part a holdover from my *NIX days but it’s an important practice for Windows as well. I’m very excited about this being the default for Windows going forward starting with Vista.

ComboBox has a lot of helpful properties that allow you to get access to items selected by the Control. The problem is knowing which one is best in which scenario. The documentation is not 100% clear on what the values will be in various situtations. The most important factor to know is whether or not you are DataBinding in the ComboBox.

It’s nice to have powershell when you need to do a lot of redundant file work. I’m use Subversion as the source code control backing for a lot of my hobby projects. I have pretty much all the code I’ve ever written as a hobby or for school stored in SVN.

.Net 2.0 Added a lot in the way of allowing programmers to easily interact with Windows. One of the best additions is the Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents class. It holds events for a lot of system relatied events (hence the name).