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I just noticed this on the MSDN Webcast list. I’m hoping to attend myself!

“The upcoming 2.0 release of .NET offers many new features and enhancements for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and also for the standard Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. In this presentation, Derek Ferguson, Editor-in-Chief of the .NET Developer’s Journal, will provide a complete introduction to writing device-based applications using Compact Framework 2.0. Full coding demonstrations will be presented, so you are ready to catch the next wave in mobile .NET technology! Previous experience writing managed applications is assumed, but no specific experience with the Compact Framework is required.”

Samuel Wan has posted an excellent explanation of the various terms involved in the public pre-release of the Nov. 2004 Avalon CTP as well as a step-by-step install overview. Nicely done, Sam!

I like exercising my democratic rights. : )

Do you have a series of simple yet compelling ClickOnce applications in you that you can build and deliver to show off the benefits of Windows Forms 2.0 smart clients? Do you have a track record of delivering top-quality code on time and on budget?

If so, send me a proposal, listing a series of ClickOnce applications, your schedule and your price. You don’t have to be a 3Leaf, a PluralSight, a Relevance LLC, a Wintellect or a DevelopMentor (although I’d be happy to hear from those guys, too!). You just have to have a song in your heart, a snap in your step and a story to tell.

By popular demand, the Avalon team has provided the November 2004 Avalon Community Technology Preview for the general public. In addition, the team has provided a batch file to enable the Avalon project item templates for use in the beta of Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition, which is also freely available to the general public.

This combination enables folks without an MSDN Subscription to try out Avalon with Visual Studio 2005 without an MSDN Subscription.

Don’t be shy about giving feedback on these bits now that you’ve got ’em. The Avalon team is standing by in the Avalon newsgroup to answer your questions and take your suggestions.

Deepak Kapoor has launched a new WinFX community: deepwinfx.com. It's pretty bare right now, but hopefully it'll flesh out nicely. I'll be keeping an eye on it. Good luck, Deepak!

S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, posts about his understandable love of ClickOnce. He'll be giving the keynote at VSLive and lists three ClickOnce blog entries at which you should take a gander.

Here. "Microsoft is working on an update to its Information Bridge Framework (IBF) for this spring, a company spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. What had been referred to as IBF 1.5 by partner sources will actually be a service pack for the integration software. The update, to be delivered via MSDN, will add support for two new host applications, InfoPath and Internet Explorer. The current IBF supports Word 2003, Excel 2003, and Outlook 2003."