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I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so.

WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF

• Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't call Close()/Dispose() if faulted" behavior that ServiceHost requires does not work well with IDisposable; it demands a behavior different from the standard IDisposable pattern." We're having a lot of issues with dealing with failures and what to do with them but Tomas definetly states a fundamental problem.
• Tomas has also WCF, WF and BizTalk Sample Posted with some interesting stuff!!
• MTOM Interoperability between Oracle Application Server and Windows Communication Foundation Part1: From WCF to Oracle
• Jesus Rodriguez as well, "I am happy to see this progress: "The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) announced the publication of three new Working Group Drafts: the Basic Profile 1.2, Basic Security Profile 1.1 and the Reliable Secure Profile 1.0 Usage Scenarios. Advancement of these documents to Working Group Draft status is an invitation to the Web services community to provide technical feedback."
• I could just list every single post that Mike Taulty writes on WF; they are all that good! In particular, WF and Versioning, MetaStorm and the Workflow Designer, Little Workflow Foundation Sample
• I could and have done the same with "Nicholas Allen's" posts on Indigo: ListenUriBindingElement, Creating Faults Part 1, and Part 2

CLR

• How to avoid assembly loads, and Getting the list of loaded assemblies from Richard Lander
• James Higgs talks about Garbage Collection and the IDisposable interface

WPF/Avalon

1. Karsten has an awesome Avalon demo - "The Woodgrove Finance Application is a great demo of how WPF can be used to create better data visualization, in this case for financial data.  I've posted the source code -- there are some good nuggets in here worth exploring." 
2. Introducing the XML Assembly Generator

Data

1. V1 of Data Dude released!

Vista

• Scott Hanselman's Vista's "Show Compatibility Files" and the Scrumptious Wonder that is File Virtualization

Blogsphere/Technology

1. Congrats to Jeff Sandquist and John Udell. John is one of the best, balanced and smart writers of technology today
2. Paint.NET v3.0 Beta 1 is now available!