Altering the Main Thread from a Worker Thread

For any of you code monkeys out there who need a way to update something in the main thread (GUI, etc) from a worker thread in a WPF application and cant seem to figure out how, there is a succinct and extremely helpful writeup available from a fellow blogger here.

Google Wave: The email killer

I am confident that within the next 5 years this is going to replace email in general usage.  This technology effectively uses current browser capabilities to merge email, IM'ing, wiki, and a number of other communication technologies.  It's called Google Wave, take a look.



Yes, the video is over an hour long, but the first 20 minutes are more than enough for you to see what I mean.   It's worth a look, believe me.

WCF Service Tutorial

Any code monkeys among you that may need a brief rundown of WCF services may have noticed that its difficult to find a good one.  This one did pretty well for me:

A Quick and Dirty WCF Service and Client