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I used to subscribe to Sara Ford’s Visual Studio Tip of the Day RSS feed. She stopped that series after 350-some odd tips. I am less interested in her current work within CodePlex. This morning, I realized I hadn’t actually read any of her posts in weeks even though that is my start-up page in Visual Studio. So what should I be looking at? What are the big MSDN feeds that I actually care about? I found a short list of feeds (below). I ended up subscribing to the Visual C# feed. Safe. Boring. We’ll see how it goes. I’m half-way tempted to write my own aggregator, but the sloth factor is a bit too high today. Plus, I have 3 other “real” projects waiting in the queue.

One thing high on my “need to learn” list is printing. Coming from a Web background, I have never needed to print things. The browser handled all of that. Throw in a printer targeted CSS (if needed) and that’s it. In WinForms is takes a bit more effort. So I’m reading through the chapters on Graphics in my Essential C# book. I find it interesting that neither my C# Cookbook or my Programming C# books contain any information on printing. Hmm…

Here are those feeds.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/rss.xml

http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/rss.xml

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/rss.xml

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/rss.xml

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/rss.xml

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/rss.xml

http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/rss.xml

Friday:

It is a beautiful day and I stuck at the office. My progress with WPF has been notable, but I still have a lot to learn to create good apps. It is a very different way of thinking about things. All of this gets shelved next week. I need to slide back into the WinForm world and finish up a data validation screen that I had been working on weeks ago. Now, I need to rework a few things and finish it up.

My ride home from work was amazing.

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