The TweakMCE power toy has been released as a seperate download from Microsoft. It was originally bundled up with the 2004 Winter pack. This little gadget will be good for Media Center users.
Overview:
“Tweak MCE gives you access to systems settings and options not normally exposed in the Windows XP Media Center Edition user interface, including remote control settings, Skip and Replay time customizations, user interface options, and more. It also helps you to optimize Media Center Extender for plasma and non-CRT displays.
The standard schema for xslt that came with VS.Net 2003 didn’t have the xsl: namespace prefix on it, and was pretty lacking. A better schema file can be found online. It was created by Joe Feser. Once you download it, extract the zip file to a temp directory and read the readme file. It tells you how to incorporate it into your vs.net install (simply copying files where it tells you to).
There is an application that comes with the .Net SDK called WinCV. This little utility is used to quickly scan a group of assemblies for names that match a search string. It’s a quick way to find the namespace of the class you know has the name “ObscureObject-Something-or-Other”. Once it finds the objects that match the search you can see the interfaces, methods, members, etc. that the object has. Almost like an Object browser, except the search is a LOT faster.