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I guess I got to get better at being more regular with these postings but work has been so crazy, I'm reviewing an ES book, flying for INETA, answering questions in the public dotnet newsgroups, writing a new MC++ article for O'Reilly, and oh yes, trying to raise a family too-)

• There hasn't been too much said about Whitehorse publically. It is one of the most exciting parts of Whidbey for me. Now, you can see screenshots and info about it from Ken Short's blog.
• Great post from Joel on Exception handling in Rotor and the CLR
• Speaking of Joel, for us CLR and Rotor wonks, he has great posts on Rotor's GC , Creating Delegate Types via Reflection.Emit and other goodies. Highly recomended.
• Speaking to my good friend Peter Drayton for over an hour the other night, as well as talking about some very exciting new Rotor possibilities that I can't talk about, he alerted me to Michal Ciernick's Rotor blog with his excellent Rotor source code annotations.
• Ken Brubaker has made an excellent compilation of new .NET Design Guidelines [via Brad Abrams]
• Brad also had a post on Win32 signatures. P/Invoke from C# is for this kind of stuff is just maddening and I agree with John Lam who says Why Use C# for This? This is clearly a case where MC++ is the right tool for the job as it is far too easy to make mistakes porting this stuff rather than using a language designed to interop with this stuff. The clear exception is the Compact Framework where MC++ doesn't seem to be supported.
• I should also note Clemen's well thought out and reasoned posts on the whole open source issue starting here, continuing here, noting the usual insulting ideology and the obvious parallels to certain times in our history, and one particularly misguided and foolish reaction.
• Many people have noted the WSE 2.0 Code Complete announcement. This is a great thing. Having worked with the beta cycle of WSE 2.0, this is going to be a great thing, and where I plan to put my architectural efforts going forward in designing distributed .NET architectures. It's either WSE or Shadowfax, but the end goal is Indigo.