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Nasa's World Wind Application - C# and Managed DirectX
Tonight I stumbled across one of the coolest C# applications I've seen to this point located at http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ (I'm probably a little late to the party on this one but better late than never I guess). An extremely impressive use of managed DirectX, .NET, texturing, 3D imagery, plus a lot more. The program is fairly large to install (170+ meg) but a lot of fun to play around with especially given that you can zoom into any area of the world and get different views of the landscape, landmarks, cities plus more. It even lets you replay events such as earthquakes, storms, etc. and rotate around the world as it all happens. They put together a nice FAQ section on why they chose .NET, C# and DirectX at http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/forums/index.php?showtopic=8&st=0&p=17&#entry17.
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Web Services Enhancements 2 SP3 Released
WSE 2 SP3 has been released on MSDN. Here are the changes listed in the ReadMe file (see the official details here):