I have a new cool gadget, and this time it's a handy one as well. It's the XBox Wireless gaming receiver for Windows. What it does is allow me to use my wireless controllers with Windows, which is great as Games for Windows means that a lot more are going to use the controllers in the future. What's really cool about it is that it doesn't just work with the standard controller. I also have the wireless headset and wheel and they also work with it. The headset is great for teamspeak as the wires on my old headset really got...

From Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Refector 5 Released - World Domination Assured: Reflector 5 is out, and it is good. Go get it immediately, or just run your current version and go Help | Check for Updates. Reflector is one of the most useful tools out there for understanding what's going on with an assembly and so everybody upgrade immediately. Scott has a pretty good list of the new features that Lutz has added in his post, the key ones (for me) being the code:// protocol handler (that's going to be really useful!), and the new functionality in the Analyze section...

Over the weekend I was working on some WPF code and getting feelings of being back at basics because I was editing XAML by hand. This was mainly because the designer for VS.NET 2005 is slightly lacking in features but I have this feeling that I'm going to stick with the text editor even when I can drag and drop without any worries of strange things happening. The thing is that unlike Windows Forms, or especially Win32 dialogs, WPF really is straight forwards to write as text. Win32 dialogs were the closest, but they were a pain to do by...