Joel Spolsky raises a great point about the Windows Vista "Off" button or whatever it is. What a pain in the butt this thing is. I don't need all these choices. All I really want is a) shut my computer off b) i'm closing the lid, so sleep or something until I want to work again and c) i'm leaving my computer for a bit, make sure nobody gets into it. The rest of this crap is just painful to use and get to quickly.
Choices = Headaches — I'm sure there's a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista, but seriously, is this the best you could come up with? — Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine …
Source: Joel on Software
Author: Joel Spolsky
Link: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html
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ASP.NET AJAX B2 just came out, that didn't take long. Probably won't install it right away since I had to pull some teeth to get B1 installed on prod servers. Of particularly interest to me is that UpdateProgress changes have been moved into the core dll now (which means UpdateProgress hooked to a particular set of update panels is fully supported now). Also, the AutoDegrade stuff looks interesting, based on browser it will flip to full postback mode if the browser can't use the AJAX stuff. I'm curious how it does this and if you have to do anything special in the server-side code. Also, that Control Toolkit is starting to look pretty impressive, lots of stuff in there.