The Managed Extensibility Framework, aka MEF, is this new library Microsoft has been working on that is used in many places to provide a common plugin like capability.

The MSDN Roadshow is coming to JAX… this time it's called the Tiki Hut. Microsoft evangelists Joe Healy and Jeff Barnes will be presenting.

[via Paul Andrew] Today Microsoft released a tool on MSDN Code Gallery called SPDisposeCheck. It will look at your code in a SharePoint to make sure you are properly disposing objects to ensure you aren't consuming more memory than you need to be.

[via Spencer Harbar] A while back I posted about how I followed Spence's slick triple boot instructions to setup a MacOS Leopard, Vista x64 & Windows Server 2008 install.

[via Mark Miller] Mark posted earlier this week about a new cheat sheet for those getting into CodeRush.

It looks like the Silverlight development tools for Visual Studio 2008 were refreshed on Monday of this week for the final release (RTW) as the same link for RC1 is gone.

With PDC 2008 around the corner, I'm all kinds of geeked up! You see, I'm a PDC virgin.

Occasionally I get a comment from someone who hit an old page on my blog called What's on My PC… an oldie that others were doing at the time.

While I had no problem installing VS2008 SP1 on my virtual machines, I've been having a heck of a time installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on my host OS ever since it came out.

In part 1 of this series I explained the reasoning and background on why I'm building a virtualization rig.