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Xml in the WebBrowser? What about easy RSS in the WebBrowser in Whidbey?

A fellow blogger has been talking about hosting the web browsing components of IE as an ActiveX Control. With Whidbey this all goes away and you can now use the Windows Forms 2.0 WebBrowser control. It just drops into place, has a bunch of events for...

Reality Check: Chunked operations take a lot of code and are hard to get right (a thread safe chunked file writer)

I've been spending a good portion of the day writing the necessary facilities for doing a multi-threaded chunked download off the web. I often run into situations where I want to grab a file, but I'm on Wi-Fi or the remote site is throttling the band...
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TraceRoute Whidbey using System.Net.NetworkInformation...

Well, it appears that the new Whidbey Ping class is ultra-effective. I've created a basic TraceRoute application making use of the API, that mimics most of the commands I have available on my XP based tracert. I've tried to use as many neat features of...
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Lightweight Code Gen and mathematical equations.

Using lightweight code gen for dynamic scripting languages is cool and all, but imagine the possibilities for the language of mathematics. Sure you can try to write some generics that handle common tasks, perhaps a generic method or two, but lightweight...
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