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The last one of these was almost a month ago on July 7th. The usual excuses apply: way too busy, travel, too much work. I have accomplished a lot today: wrote a lot of unit tests and a whole bunch of C# classes to represent the structure of many concepts in my product as well as teaching and selling a co-worker on NUnit. So I am going to allow myself the time to clear out my flagged blog posts. I will have to blast them out in fire-hose mode from oldest to newest (I hope). Take a deep breath and away we go:

• Mark Fusell's brilliant MSDN article, best I have seen on this: What's New in Web Service Enhancements (WSE) 3.0
• Another great MSDN WSE 3 article: WSE 3 and WS-ReliableMessaging
• Yes, as David Chappell writes workflow is being added to Windows (I can't say anymore than he does) and I am in huge agreement with “Why Workflow Matters,“ especially since a great deal of my daily life is in workflow now
• CTP of the Web Services Security Patterns from the following GotDotNet workspace: http://practices.gotdotnet.com/projects/sopatterns [via Beat Schwegler]  
• Continuous Integration for Visual Studio 2005 Team System beta 2  [via Mike]
• 3Leaf's most excellent CEO and Microsoft expert, Sean Cambell has a hell of a great article on the brand new ability of VSTO 2K5 to develop managed add-ins. Boy, is this a needed capability and this is a great article to get started.
• A brand-new edition (5) is out of the excellent JOURNAL, the Microsoft Architects Journal 
• Mike Taulty has updated his extremely useful WSE Tracing tool for the WSE 3.0 Preview. The bits are at http://mtaulty.com/downloads/Wse3Trace.zip
• Of course, the big news in the last month has been the Preview release of IE 7. It certainly sucks a lot less now.

• A new Upgrade Centre on MSDN has just been launched to help customers who are already using ASP.NET today to easily move onto ASP.NET 2.0. Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/migration/upgrade/default.aspx! [via Claire Dillon]

• Avoid Setup and Teardown. I think like he and my good friend Peter who I got this from.

• CruiseControl.NET gets an MSBuild Task [via Andrew]

• VS SDK milestone almost done and plans

• DSL for GOF Patterns [via Stuart Kent ]

• My friend Rich Turner has an excellent post addressing feedback to his Developing Distributed Systems Today article. Its a must read.

• Another good one from Rich on Indigo & COM + Object Pooling & JITA. Try to say that 3 times fast-)

• Brain Jones on the Office 12 sessions at PDC. Drool-)

• Peter Golde, one of the original designers of the C# language, has been working recently on Power Collections for .NET, which is now released.  According to the web site, Power Collections is a "Community Project to Develop the Best Public License Collection Classes for .NET".  The documentation gives a good, quick overview of the functionality {verbiage and link from Scott Wiltamuth]

• There is so much great stuff in Rob Caron's New Team System Stuff - 2005-07/31 and Suggested Reading -2005-07-31 posts, that I suggest reading it all. I know I will!

• Doug Purdy on Secure .NET Remoting

• Good article on Using VSTS to do Test-Driven Development. Let's say I'm not buying a lot of it, and this subject, upon prodding by some of my readers, I will revisit soon

• Via Rob Caron, some Registry Mods for the TFS Server computer hosting the proxy to gain full functionality (event log & performance counters

• X-Develop, an alternative cross-platform IDE for .NET, Java and Mono has hit the streets. There is a trial download. [via Tim Anderson]

• Office 2003 Add-in: Word Redaction - Tool from Microsoft to help remove confidential text from Word documents [via email from co-workers and Mike]