When an app crashes in XP, an mdmp (mini-dump) file is created can can be used to debug the beast. This codeproject article says how.
A copy is sent to Microsoft by default. You can also get a copy off the hard drive. Here's more info. Chris Sells also has a posting that explains how you can sign up to get the copies that ship to Microsoft.
Brad Abrams clued us in to the revised Enum usage guidelines from the blog of Krzysztof Cwalina. With annotations, no less!
Brad attributes the legwork to Kit George who posts on the BCLTeam blog.
The entry include expanded instructions on the zero value and on versioning. Don't burn your fingers!
Here are two interesting posts on the My namespace. It's interesting to consider the “My” namespace as just another utility library that every enterprise builds on top of the FCL.
By 3Leaf.
By Simon Stewart (MVP).
I missed an important post that Dare Obasanjo, the .NET XML lead, made a couple of days ago, where explains why they will only support XQuery 1.0 in .NET 2.0. The key quote:
XQuery with its FLWOR construct and user defined functions fits more naturally with how both programmers and database administrators access and manipulate data than does XSLT 2.0. Thus we feel XQuery and not XSLT is the future of XML based query and transformation.
This doesn't mean that we will be removing XSLT 1.0 or XPath 1.0 support from the .NET Framework. It just means that our innovation and development efforts will be focused around XQuery going forward.
A must read.