For music I find foobar2000[^] excellent.

I also recommend Avira. I use it at the office and at home. I used to use Microsoft Security Essentials at home, but it was using too much memory and CPU. Then went to the free Avira version, and bought it in the end, just to get rid of the Avira ads :)

I wonder if they give one away for trying to hack it to get native code running on it. I'm interested in getting "Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora, FLAC, and WebM" running on Windows 7 Phone (BTW I have an unreleased version that runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 - 6.5, which I intend to release before Windows 7 Phone is unleashed to customers) I can imagine their reply "Native code running on Windows 7 Phone? That's blasphemy!", but I won't know until I apply.

It took me one month (30 minutes every day) to become full touch typist using "Typing Tutor 6" (old, but gold) Nowdays http://app.typrx.com/[^] says I'm doing 70 WPM. And BTW Das Keyboard is worth every cent :)

Well I want something coming from Microsoft, which comes with Visual Studio, which works with the designer tools, in other words supported by Microsoft. This Silverlight for Windows Embedded sounds like the thing. If I would use a 3rd party library, I would use Qt from Nokia with the upcoming Declarative UI/[^]

Windows Embedded CE has a native C++[^] Silverlight implementation. This is good news for native developers for a change. I would love to use it instead of / with MFC for developing Desktop applications. Sign this petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/SWE4DKTP/petition.html) if you would like to have the native C++ Silverlight not only on Microsoft Windows Embedded CE operating system but also on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, and 7 operating systems. I am aware that this might not change anything (or rather will not), but we (native developers) should show Microsoft that we want native declarative UI framework.

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But TR1 should (shared_ptr, regex, fuction, hash tables and many more) Cheers.

C++ TR1 is very, very important. Also the new MFC classes are very useful, especially if you have, like we had, old versions of BCGControlBar. VS2008 SP1 is very important for C++.

Works with VS 2005 SP1. But as stated in the official documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384632.aspx[^] you have problems with #import directive. On a project I have seen an 40% improvement but it failed to compile because of one #import directive. You need to remove the /MP configuration for all the cpp files which have #import directives, this has to be done manually. One solution is to save (and generate them when needed) the tli and tlh files as cpp and h files.