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The big news of the day is my buddy Ingo starting up a new high-powered consulting firm thinktecture with some other well-known friends of mine, Christian Weyer,  Christian Nagel (watch for his upcoming ES book - it rocks!), and Ralf Westphal. Congrats and best wishes! In other news

• The Open NETCF Guys have started a most excellent Wiki, with an outstanding Compact Framework FAQ, and a P/Invoke section for Compact Framework signatures ala Pinvoke.net
• Of course, I should mention that the Open NETCF guys who are Compact Framework MVPs are providing libraries today that do what Whidbey will do eventually plus more features
• Jim Wilson has made available his three MDC presentations including one on Interop
• Mike Gunderloy has an excellent article on using the SQLXML Managed Classes