Thursday, January 25, 2007

Morning Coffee 17

Yesterday's Morning Coffee was canceled on account of barfing. For all the gory details (you have been warned), check out my wife's blog.

• Only 12 responses to the State of the Union were posted as I write this. Dunno why, but I was expecting more. Maybe this whole Web 2.0 thing is overblown a bit! :)
• Speaking of the State of the Union, is it just me, or did anyone else find it odd that the Scooter Libby trial started the same day?
• Atlas ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 is done. Lots more on this from Scott Guthrie's blog. While I'm not personally that interested in ASP.NET AJAX itself, two things strike me as interesting in this release. First, we're shipping all the code for this. The client side JavaScript library, the Control Toolkit, even the server-side components. Second, it's nice to see the Developer Division shipping something this significant without waiting for the next release of Visual Studio. Here's hoping that both of these two trends continue.
• Rich McCollister pointed me to the XmlProviderLibrary. Bad on me for not looking harder.
• Windows Live Writer is pretty cool, but it is missing one feature that I needed twice Tuesday. While embedding images in a post is cake, there doesn't seem to be a way to embed non-image files. You know, like the ColorConsoleTraceListener Project or the Live Search for Chartity Search Providers. I'm guessing the infrastructure to post images and files would be identical, but there's no UI interface for it. I checked out the WLW SDK online and found the ISmartContent.Files.Add method, so I'm guessing it's doable. But there's no such animal on the Live Gallery. I wonder why nobody else has built this yet? Is this really that unique a request?