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Like usual, I have about 10 things going on at once, all with deadlines, and no time to write or blog really what I would like to - new original articles. In the meantime, I did find some things that interested me in the areas I am in (CLR mostly), which hopefully help you as well.

• John Lam via Charles Cook (both must-read bloggers) comment about the CLR Team's Jim Hogg's announcement about a CLR 2.0 feature “Friend assemblies“ which essentially allows you to package your code into more than one assembly and maintain “internal“ visibility for types. I agree that this would be very useful, particularly in the scenario John talks about: unit tests.
• There is a new version of Reflector compiled for the Whidbey bits.
• Suprise! Ian Hitchings talks about the unmanaged bits being added to Longhorn
• New version of the continuous integration tool Hippo.NET