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This week, Christophe Nasarre, one of the best reviewers on my Windows Forms book, has written a 3-article series on the new command line build system and the new build core of Visual Studio 2005: MSBuild. In this installment, Christophe starts from the ground floor, building the most basic .proj files and then exploring the advanced features you need to control your builds.

Also, because MSBuild is still under development, this piece covers the details of both the MSBuild in the Longhorn PDC bits as well as the most recent Visual Studio 2005 technology preview.

I work closely with Vic and Steve on the strategy for Longhorn content and activies, so I’m planning to tune it to today’s .NET Rocks.

Mike and I write our first cut and what’s new and cool in Windows Forms 2.0 in this month's MSDN Magazine.

Here. Whoever put this site together had the right idea. I was hoping to work my magic to get MS to publish a giant interop DB, but instead of waiting, Adam Nathan (of .NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide fame) put up a wiki to collect all of the P/Invoke signatures that the community already knows about. Yeah, baby! This could finally be a wiki I can get behind! (Sorry, Ward, but I've just never found a wiki that makes me want to hang out there...)

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!
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If you’re looking for my wife, Melissa, her email address is msells@sellsbrothers.com. Her email is pretty reliable now, so send her some! It makes her so happy…

My brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Joel and Beth Howie are online again. Drop them a line.

Another friend of mine since grade school, Pete Clark, is just coming off his hiatus recovering from a dot-bomb and spending time with his new child. He is now the principle in pclark.net Consulting, LLC.

If you live in Portland, OR and you’d like to get together for breakfast with a group of “congenial nerds,” check out the Nerd Breakfast Home Page. I like to get there myself when I’m not traveling (or sleeping in : ).

This just in!  Matt Pietrek’s wife took this pic of (left to right), Don Box, me and Matt Pietrek. Sorry about the lack of a smile. I was having a lot of fun hanging out at Matt’s house that day, but can never manage to smile for the camera. BTW, ask me to tell you how all of us spent hours debugging a screensaver that day…

 

According to Amazon’s Alexa project, sellsbrothers.com is the 151,443rd ranked site by traffic in the world and is in the 48th percentile speed-wise. That sounds pretty crappy, but considering how many sites there are, I don’t think that’s too bad (although I admit to not being able to think of many sites to try that turned out to be lower ranked than mine… : ).

Of course, Yahoo!, MSN and Google are 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

I had coffee with Arlo Belshee today. He's done years of successful XP programming and when I say "successful," I mean increased and predicable output. In fact, the techniques he described for XP programming, he also applied to sales/marketing and got the same level of improvements. He's got an idea for the culture of a product team, including all levels of management, that makes me drool. If you get a chance to hear Arlo speak on this topic, you should do it. He's downright inspiring.