Clip.exe and the missing Paste.exe
One of the guys on #PowerShell in IRC was asking about how to get the contents of the clipboard in PowerShell, and after we had tried several different scripts, we realized that in Version 1, because PowerShell runs in an MTA thread, you cannot access the clipboard without creating a new thread (in STA mode). [...]
Visual Studio 2008
Well, Visual Studio 2008 launched while I was off in Houston, Texas … if you don’t have an MSDN subscription, you can check out Visual C# Express 2008 and the rest of the Visual 2008 Express editions, or the trial versions and of course, the new .Net Framework 3.5