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Yet another big gap (August 3rd). As you can tell from all the latest posts, I am playing a lot with Vista, WinFX (Indigo AND Avalon) and half a dozen incompatible versions of SQL Server/VSTS as well as diving into ADO.NET 2.0 in my day job. I am also writing some great new code and material for my Occasionally-Connected Smart Client session in Orlando. If you have seen this talk before at DevTeach and Code Camp, I apologize; it's been kind of lame but this one is really cool with an Outlook style app and Whidbey's Click Once as well as OCC and syncing with SQL Mobile and the like. So what do I have to share? More left-over stuff from the PDC that I haven't posted yet. I am also writing a book proposal together with someone from That Small Software Company in the Pacific Northwest. Take 3 guesses on subject? It sure ain't Visual C++.NET like the last one!

• Benjamin Mitchell has an excellent write-up on Jeff Richter's pre-PDC session which he terms “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0.“ I love this quote from Jeff, “Indigo loves using attributes.  They use attributes so much that you no longer have to write code." Great stuff.
• ScottGu on Atlas Unleashed. Ok, see it? That's my one and only Atlas post on this blog
• Lots of people have commented on how cool the new Office 12 UI is. I agree and also think it's the best change in many years. I link to one of my favorite sites here; Neowin and their report
• The Agile Management blog points to “This well balanced piece of journalism looks at the new trend in agile management tools including Team System and its MSF process guidance. The piece manages to cover both MSF for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement as well as looking at rival products that support Scrum and Extreme Programming.“ This is a great blog. BTW, my pal Rob probably wanted me to comment on the recent posts about MSF-CMM and Agile. Just because you can now throw the word “Agile“ at everything doesn't make it so.
• ScottGu on the Quartz Web Designer. This product, and the other Expression products, really rock. It wasn't apparent from the quick look I took but hopefully these products will spare me from the hell that is XAML and Angle Brackets and let me do Avalon work in much better way 
• Jon Udell captures an interview with Bill Gates and a  podcast. Look at the list of questions - these are the questions I am interested in
• Barry, who is doing some excellent blogging this week, talks about my friend Eric Sink and his latest smart move: TeamPrise which allows you to access Team Foundation Server/VSTS from Unix, Mac and Eclipse
• Joel Jeffrey blogs the Windows Communication Foundation Best Practices PDC session
• Dustin Miller covers the Sharepoint V3.0 Features
• Paul Wilson thinks “Linq is Really Cool -- But DLinq is a Big Mess.“ He raises some good points.
• Joel Ross notices that  the release notes are posted for CruiseControl.NET for RC2 so the release must be right around the corner
• Scott Swigart interviews the key VB9 players and its now on-line at Dr. Dobbs.
• Brian blogs Steve Schwartz's WCF (Indigo) - Under the Hood of the Service Layer PDC Session
• I guess another one of my sacred beta programs is now public: Longhorn Server
• According to Neowin, In total, 8 new games come with Windows Vista including Chess, Shanghai, a new Minesweeper, a new Freecell, a new game called "Purple Place", and a couple other card games.
• According to many blogs and the Microsoft OEM site, Microsoft is due to release Windows Media Center Edition Update (codenamed Emerald) soon.  [via Neowin]
• A new pretty Windows Vista Homepage
• Q&A: Microsoft's Jim Allchin touts Vista, new developer technologies
• Jim Johnson::“What should I think about when using transactions with the file system?“
• Jorgen::Xbox 360 Launch Dates Announced
• Jorgen::WS-Management submitted to DMTF