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I'm waking to another glorious sunny morning here in Redmond. I'm about convinced the whole rain thing is a hoax. Its going to be 77 today and 84 tomorrow while back home it's a Nor'easter and sheets of rain in the 40's. I have actually been out here dozens of times and always seem to get this kind of weather.

• First off this morning, Chris Sell's post “C++ is dead, long live C++“ points to a great post and sums up a lot of discussion I have been hearing the last few days out here and then earlier from people like Kate. Basically, the rewrite of MC++ into C++/CLI has been hugely successful and now that the language looks just like C# and you still have the power of C++/templates/STL as well, it's staging a major comeback. When I went to Kate's group in Toronto, I took my generics code in C# and for Kate's benefit, I wrote the C++/CLI version. I was expecting all sorts of horrors and errors but the code came out perfect in first try and naturally, the way C# flows for me. The point: While I don't agree with some of the conclusions in the original post, especially the ones advocating eliminating C#, they (the C++ team) have got it right and some people are starting to go back the other way.
• MSMQ version 3.5 Beta for "Indigo" (courtesy of Mike)
• There is now a SQLCLR blog for details of integrating the CLR into Yukon
• If you are using Whidbey Beta 2 and Compact CF or even unmanaged programming, you'll want to Install this patch.which was previously available to us in the Magneto program. It uses DMA instead of TCP/IP to talk to the emulator. Not only is it much faster but a lot less error prone.
• Junfeng Zhang, on the CLR/Fusion team, as usual has a bunch of great posts. These ones are shorter sort of “reminder posts“ but important for you to remember: “GAC Internals are Implementation Detail,“ “Assemblies Side by Side“, “Publisher Policy revisit“, “Per-user GAC“, and especially “Using GAC“. Read that one and understand please!
• Rob Caron told me about MSN Virtual Earth which is quite cool
• Don questions why ChrisAn is using Python instead of Ruby. I'm begining to question that a lot recently too especially after talking about it for hours last night with Peter Provost and Brad.
• Keith Short, one of my heros that I got to talk to you yesterday (book autographed too!!), blogs about the new public portal for Software Factories at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem/workshop/sf/default.aspx. And yes, for the record, I belive in the Software Factories concepts and believe they are the next step in evolution that the software industry needs to get to.
• What's New in VSIP 2005. Ah, these newbies to (managed) VSIP have it so easy. Back in the day....(insert story of having to walk 10 miles to school barefoot)...
• There is a lot going on in the mobile space that I will be giving a whole topic to later but one great one is that OpenNETCF  have done it again! First the SDF 1.3! and then their teaming with the PAG folks on Application Blocks. Bravo!!