Congress, in its infinite wisdom, passed a law last year changing the dates for the change over for Daylight Savings Time for the United States. By sheer fact of the number of business relationships between the two neighboring countries, Canada was forced to follow suit. Needless to say this change can cause issues with time operations for applications. Microsoft is attempting to mitigate the issue with some updates to the OS and KB articles around changes to the APIs.
Quite a while ago I ran into the issue where I couldn’t remove code snippets from Visual Studio 2005. Just click remove didn’t seem to work from the Snippet Manager. I had found a loction where a hidden XML file contained the snippet names, and once you updated that file the snippets were finally killed. On Vista the location of this file is slightly different due to the different structure of the users directories.
I recently had a reason to update my “Go With the Flow” introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation presentation. I’ve updated the content and demos to all work with the RTM version of WF. Not a whole lot changed, though they did completely get rid of the TerminationTrackingService from the base libraries (I was using it as an example service that can be plugged into the runtime, though it’s a fairly useless one).