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I've added a category to my blog where I'll be adding content regarding the Adelaide .NET User Group.  The website for the user group is: http://www.adnug.com/ and we meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month.

Did you know that Windows XP Service Pack 2 is now RC2?

Today I started writing a new little hobby application / productivity tool which I'm planning to implement as tray application.  The first thing that I did was to crack open the code from Duncan's 3rd Coding For Fun article titled: "Checking My Email"

Last night I had dinner with a couple of MS Developer evangalists and three of our local user group members. During dinner we discussed some of the possibilities for Whidbey-related group meetings and how we might ensure that we remove barriers of entry and get the maximum number of our members playing with the publicly available bits.

My previous 3 weeks has re-installed the feeling that building computer applications is a great thing to do.  Some quick reminders for myself:

A week or so ago Justin and both I blogged about some categorization features which we felt were missing from our current blog community. Today Justin posted another larger article which drills in a bit further on the feature-set which is provided by our current free community and others have been discussing features too. Heck, Weblogs.asp.net has even had a paragraph on its home page touting new features which are as yet un-named. All of this got me thinking and I thought that I'd pump my thoughts out while they are fresh in my mind...

I'm currently building an application updater tool which needs to receive an arbitrary list of assemblies, calculate which one is the bootstrapper and exectute it. I had it in my head that I would need to create an AppDomain and then use reflection to load and Invoke the entry point of the bootstrap application - so I spent until the wee hours trying to get all kinds of Reflective incantations to work. I could get Assembly.Load to work quite simply:

http://whidbey.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_aspnetcon/html/e8601952-642e-4479-8b6f-6a1b2a58401d.asp