After some Googling for the issue I discovered a Hotfix released by Microsoft that should resolve my issues. The thing about this hotfix was that you also neede to install another hotfix because the fix might break something else. You gotta love the irony in that!

Anyways the hotfixes I’m talking about can be found here:

• KB958017 – Rollup Hotfix for several issues in WPF designer Visual Studio 2008
• KB963035 – VS2008 SP1 sometimes hangs irretrievably after WPF Designer

After installing both hotfixes the problem was gone I can now open the xaml files that use VisualStateManager.

More information about the VisualStateManager itself can be found here: http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-35sp1-toolkit-visual-state-manager-overview.aspx

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This Sync service is something I’m looking forward to since I was a user of the Microsoft Live Mesh program. I stopped using Live Mesh because I reached my storage limit and at the time there was no possibility to upgrade. The new Sync service is integrated with you Windows Skydrive storage which – as far as I know – is upgradeable.

Another big change is the Messenger application, it is no longer targeted at “just” IM messaging, but now has an integrated sort of activity stream with social networks like Facebook and Myspace. My guess is that in the future this might expand to other networks as well.

So if you want to try this latest beta release go to: http://bit.ly/deEQxl

Note: this post is written using the latest beta of Windows Live Writer

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1. Microsoft Tag: suddenelfilio.net can help you with your Microsoft Tag needs.
2. WordPress Services: for a simple blog or wordpress as cms we can help you!

Have a look at the Products & Services page for more information.

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Have a look at http://rilsharp.suddenelfilio.net

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System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityNegotiationException: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority ‘ws.tag.microsoft.com‘.

As you can see the authority is complaining about the Microsoft domain. The issue was the certificate used by Microsoft’s Tag API was outdated and thus the error was thrown when the  REST service communicated with the Microsoft service.

Since the certificate has been renewed and is now valid till somewhere early 2011 this problem should be resolved.

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The way it works is really simple. First go to the website to create an account then you install a plugin for you browser/mobile phone and you’re set!

When browsing a website and you see something that you like to read later on just click the readitlater icon in the adress bar and it will be stored so you can easily find it back later on. Nice about this is that the list of things you want to read later on is available on every pc/mac/mobile that has the til plugin installed. All popular browser and mobile platforms are supported.

Another very nice feature is the ability to download the resource you would like to read later on so you can read it when you are offline. Like when you put various stuff in your list while working and then on the way home in the train you would like to read them. Because they were downloaded you can even if you 3G reception is bad or even worse not available.

A problem when you want to read a website on a mobile device might be the extensive use of images and all sorts of markup. Ril allows you to convert the resource to be stored as text so it strips out unnecessary markup and presents it in a clean format. This is very handy when catching up on your list from a mobile device.

On top of that they have a very nice application called Digest. What Digest does is it sorts your resources into topics and presents it to you like you are reading blog or newspaper. Consider it like your own Magazine software that updates its content to the stuff you really like to read.On top of that Digest also allows you to share your content with others and access to Digest is possible from all Read It Later apps.

Currently you can get an early beta access to Digest  for only $5.

Since I’m a developer myself I also would like to make you aware of the RIL API. So if you are feeling creative give it try and build an amazing mashup or app to integrate with ReadItLater.

I can only say that I really like it a lot! It helps me remember all the fun stuff out there in the digital world I would like to discover.

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If you recognize this issue and have found a working solution please let me know by posting a comment!

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Ofcourse some of the text will be different because it uses dynamic counters. But you get the picture So if you are running on a WordPress system why not participate and install the plugin which will do the heavy lifting for you!

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