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So im making a twitter client

Over the last few weeks i have been learning WPF, and have been creating a Twitter Client
While i am still learning, this is what i have produced so far, although now i have learnt more i am planning on a slight redesign
[edit: there was a picture here, but due to a server crash it disappeared [...]

WPF & XAML

Over the past week i have spent a lot of time reading “Pro WPF in C# 2008”, and all i can say is WPF and XAML make UI design bearable, and its brilliant, its so powerful, and easy to learn.
Well done Microsoft

VS2010 Beta 1, and the annoying bug it has created

I have had VS2010 Beta 1 since Tuesday, and its brilliant, it seriously good, and i have been working on my twitter client in it. 
But all this good has been destroyed by one little annoying bug (my Microsoft Connect bug report). 
Basically when i access a menu item in any of the following applications (List Growing) [...]

IE8 Ctrl+Shift+J & Nvidia 185.81 Drivers on Windows 7

I have found that when i press this combination, about 40% of the time i will get the graphics distribution that i mentioned in this previous article.
Its annoying Nvidia, Microsoft fix this ASAP.

This is NOT a flaw!!

It has been circulating the web recently about a flaw in Windows 7 security (see http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001675.html)
The fact you can name a file virus.txt.exe and only see the virus.txt and the application can change the icon to match this is not a flaw.
In most cases it will not let you execute the program if it has [...]