The Windows Imaging Component (WIC) provides WIC-enabled applications to display, edit, and access metadata for any image format for which a WIC-compliant CODEC is installed.

This looks like it might be useful if you need to open or examine graphics files.

It appears that it also comes as part of .NET Framework 3.0.

• Blog of one of the MS Imaging developers
• Related MSDN article

Here’s a useful utility that can find unused code in your compiled .NET assemblies.

There’s a new trick to configuring the proxy information for Windows Update from within Vista. netsh is the new tool instead of proxycfg.

Like a few other people, I experienced a problem installing the Beta 2 Technical Refresh for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Everything went by the book until the “SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard” got to the final step, when it failed with an error “could not find stored procedure ‘dbo.proc_MSS_cleanup’”.

The solution is outlined in this newsgroup post.

Mark mentioned to me today that I’m going to get a new mobile phone! Two possibilities are:

• HP iPAQ rw6828 (apparently similar to 02 XDA Atom)
• HP iPAQ hw6515

I’d be interested in any suggestions on those or others that I should consider (around the same price range)