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Okay, these are mostly “Old but Still Notable” as I clear out my NewsGator Outlook folder

• Jamie Cansdale: The Reflector Add-In for Visual Studio .NET is now being maintained in the .NET Reflector Add-Ins GDN Workspace. it is highly recommended that you download the latest add-ins. This, along with his NUnit Add-In are must installs.
• Dave Hill says The Smart Client Architecture Guide is nearing completion. This is very good as the current stuff is heavily weighted toward ASP.NET architectures. In particular, he notes “we’ve had to drop the chapter on smart client patterns.“ This is sad because I really need something like this and I am sure many others do. Now that I am back in the realm of the smart client, and not ASP.NET, etc. the outstanding Enterprise Solution Patterns using Microsoft .NET has some gaps as there is a chapter on Web Presentation Patterns but not Smart Clients. Although patterns like MVC are universally applicable, there are some considerably different approaches and patterns for the client.
• My friends, Christian Nagel and Bill Evjen, among others, have gotten out another (3rd) edition of Professional C#. Congrats guys!
• Everyone has blogged about Oracle joining the VSIP program. This is a good thing for the mixed shops trying to use Oracle back-ends with ADO.NET and VS.NET and experiencing pain.
• Miguel Jimenez has a way to install the Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview - March bits on the WinHEC build of Longhorn but jledgard gives the use at your own risk warning.
• WS-I.org publishes first  WS-I Basic Security Profile Working Group Draft [via Christian Weyer]
• Don on Deconstructing ASMX
• There is a new NNTP reader for the PocketPC called Qusnetsoft Newsreader 1.5.01.
• The System.Xml in CF 2.0 series continues
• Neil Cowburn shows how to use the very useful new Configuration framework in Smart Device Framework 1.1
• Neil talks about the lack of MC++ support now and in the future on devices and asks what people think. It's really killing us as we attempt to do things on devices where we really could use an IJW wrapper to take some existing C++ functionality and make it available on the device, we can't in many circumstances. Writing P/Invoke shims doesn't cut it. There will be COM Interop in Whidbey and greater marshaling but this is really an area where MC++ has a place and would be most helpful
• Eric Carter: VSTO 2.0 Managed Control Support: Primary and Extender. Another area we are interested in.
• Brad reports on the new API Design Guideline: Enums