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It's almost like the bible story. It has been raining straight through for 4 days and nights now. I'm not talking minor rain, but sheets of rain, inches per hour at times and flooding. Is this a prep for Seattle? I don't know. In the dozens of times I have been there it's been nice and sunny.

• My gosh, I didn't realize how many C# Team Bloggers were out there. Andy Pennell points to the list and adds a few more related debugger bloggers. My subscription list just went up by a dozen! I must say that Microsoft overall has done an order of magnitude better job at communicating with developers over the last year. This level of communication and insight into products and design decisions is something we never had and appreciated.
• Anson Horon, a C# PM, posts on Implement Interface in Whidbey
• The MSDN ASP.NET Dev Center has gotten a face lift and Kent Sharkey has done an awesome job. Looks great!
• Brad Abrams - Unix Style Mount Points
• Two fantastic articles must-read articles on MSDN: “Writing Asynchronous, Bidirectional, Stateful, Reliable Web Services with Indigo and  Profile-Guided Optimization with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 [via David Weller who remarks “With all the hoopla about C# and VB in the .NET world, most folks are going to be VERY surprised at the features that will come out in the next version of C++.  In essence, the “It Just Works” (IJW) magic is significantly improved.  For those of you currently working in C++, I assure you the 2005 version of C++ will blow you away.“]
• Don reports that The Web Transports team (who bring you HTTP.SYS and WINHTTP.DLL) now has a blog.
• Joel Pobar continues his high-quality CLR/Rotor Internals posts with Late-bound invocation notes - CallVirt, Delegates, Dynamic Method, InvokeMethod. This stuff rocks!
• Christoph Schittko, one of the XML MVPs, is a great guy I met and got to hang out with at the PDC. He knows a lot about BizTalk and XML, among other things and has started a blog BizTalk Baby Steps. Subscribed! [via my friend Kirk]
• Yves Dolce, a Microsoft Consultant in ISV Practices, Microsoft US Partner Services points to two must-read papers if you develop for the .NET Framework using MC++: Producing Verifiable Components with Managed Extensions for C++ and Mixed DLL Loading Problem.