• Windows Imaging Component RC1

    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.

  • Analyzing IL for unused code

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

  • Getting Windows Update working with a proxy server in Vista

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