Here. To save myself linking to nearly every single one of his posts, I'll just tell you now: If you're doing WinFS or curious how it works or what it means, you *must* read Mike Deem's blog.

Here. If you haven't noticed, the Longhorn SDK site on MSDN [1] has a new area at the bottom of each page. We call the entries in this area "annotations." This area is broken up into three parts: 1. Microsoft "official" annotations, like what you'd find in a ReadMe, but associated with the specific piece of content itself 2. General group discussion, like in a newsgroup, but again, associated with the content itself 3. 3rd party annotations The 3rd part come from a client-side component that acts as an RSS aggregator, pulling annotations for a specific piece of content from the RSS feeds that you subscribe to via the component. O'Reilly was nice enough to provide an RSS feed at the launch of the annotations project to both demonstrate it's usefulness and provide real annotations to about 50 pieces of content on the Longhorn SDK. In addition, they've posted a nice article about how other 3rd parties can provide their own annotations via RSS to nestle at the bottom of the MS Longhorn SDK content. If you'd like to provide annotations for folks to subscribe to as "annotations," you can do so without any permission or special support from MS. If you'd like to be considered as a "Recommend" source of annotations, drop me an email: csells@microsoft.com. [1] http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com

Here. Normally I wouldn't point this page out, because it's *unofficial* and *unsupported*, but some folks have used the guidance on this page to fix issues with the PDC Longhorn bits, especially as related to networking. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Here. Here's the third and final part of my document-centric applications in WinForms piece. In this part, I present the FileDocument component from Genghis [1] and show how it can be used in SDI and MDI applications. Enjoy [1] http://www.genghisgroup.com

Here. Under Whidbey, VC++ supports both CLR generics and C++ templates for managed code. In this post, Brandon Bray, a PM on the VC++ team, lays out the differences, while also laying out the differences between C++ templates and CLR generics in general.

Here. Some folks have had trouble with ieexec.exe throwing a System.IO.FileLoadException when using my No-Touch Deployment command line handling code for .NET 1.0 and 1.1. Andrew Duncan burned a PSS call to figure out the problem and I've updated the sample code to match (ieexec.exe needs a Last-Modified header). Thanks, Andrew!

Here. How cool is this? Infragistics, UI component giant, has released a technology demo of their UltraGrid control for Avalon, including source! Apparently it took 2 guys 1 month to build this control from a standing start, i.e. no previous Avalon experience. There are a bunch of limitations and Infragistics is clear that you shouldn't use this code as a template for writing your own components, but it's still fun to see. Thanks, Infragistics!

Here. If you have questions or comments about Longhorn/WinFX development, be sure to post them on one of the WinFX newsgroups. Digging through the recent activity, I'm hard-pressed to find a post that isn't addressed by a member of the appropriate MS product team. These guys are *dying* for your feedback, so post away!