Shawn Burke has released the details to set up VS08 to debug into the .NET Framework source code, including the following assemblies:

• mscorlib.DLL
• System.DLL
• System.Data.DLL
• System.Drawing.DLL
• System.Web.DLL
• System.Web.Extensions.DLL
• System.Windows.Forms.DLL
• System.XML.DLL
• WPF (UIAutomation*.dll, System.Windows.DLL, System.Printing.DLL, System.Speech.DLL, WindowsBase.DLL, WindowsFormsIntegration.DLL, Presentation*.dll, some others)
• Microsoft.VisualBasic.DLL

Others are coming. Thanks, Shawn!

Wahoo!

Does anyone have both the Anderson WPF book and the Griffiths/Sells WPF book? If so, have you read Don's forewords in both books?

I just saw that Mr. Petzold is re-publishing the paper that started computer science and annotating it so that even I can understand it. I can't wait!

OK, just after all my friends are on FaceBook, now I’m getting the requests to join Spock.com. I don’t know what Spock.com is, but after the address-book thingie, MySpace, the high school alumni thingie, Friendster (?), the Google ork-something, the business thingie and most recently FaceBook, I’m all done. All I ever do on these sites is approve friends requests! Isn’t there supposed to be some value to it other than that?

Oh, sure, I’ve had a few messages from people I haven’t heard from in a while, but email works for that. In fact, email works for a helluva lot of the internet apps I see today. Plus, most of them just forward web form results to my email anyway! Why do I need a whole other thing when I’ve already got all my friends listed in my address book?

I declare the social network backlash officially started!

From now on, I’m going to be doing some anti-social networking around the ol’ Casa de’ Sells. If you want me, you know my email addresses, how to post comments on my blog and my phone number. That should be enough.

“*cough* When I was a boy, we didn’t have these fancy social networks. *cough* *cough* We had email and we were happy to have it!”

“Yes, Grandpa. Shhhh….”

Thanks very much "ET" on the Canadian Amazon. I can think of no higher compliment. : )

In the same way that .NET manages memory for you, Windows Home Server manages storage. All you have to do is tell it the names of shared folders you want it to have and which computers to back up and it will spread it and duplicate it across however many HDDs you have, without you worrying about which actual HDD your “Music” folder is on or where your wife’s computer is being backed up to.

Plus, if you have more than one HDD and you have “Enable Folder Duplication” enabled for a shared folder, the data in that folder will be shared across multiple HDDs, effectively giving you the benefits of RAID without the config muss and fuss. (It’s my understanding that this cross-HDD data duplication happens automatically for backed up data, but I don’t know how to confirm that empirically without risking the data.  : )

Because a 750GB SATA HDD was $156 at newegg.com, it was a no-brainer to pick one up. It arrived today and it was mean-time of 10 minutes between tearing the tape off the box and the new HDD being used for data storage on my WHS. I didn’t even have to turn off the HP MediaServer machine!

All I did was pull an empty drawer forward, place the new HDD into it and push the drawer closed. Seating the drawer also seated both the data and power connections on the HDD itself, no wires or plastic connectors needed. I want all HDDs to work this way!

10 seconds later, the little light went on that said my new HDD was ready to be added as storage to my WHS, which only took right-clicking in the WHS console (already updated to display the new HDD) and adding it as storage. Another 10 seconds and some additional settings changes to enable folder duplication on my shared folders and the new HDD is in active service, providing redundant storage for all the data I care about in the house.

Really, the only problem I have now is that I only have enough data to fill 14% of the 1.4TB of new storage space. Maybe we need a Windows Friends & Family Server and I could rent out the extra space? : )

This is what happens when my relatives get together and the wine flows freely... : )