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I know what you're all thinking. How dare he have all that fun, post pictures, post things about Rory? How dare he not give us our technical content? What is he human or something? So in that light, I will get serious again, stop having fun and give what's new and notable out there in .NET land:

• VSIP Extras was released a while ago and AaronM from Microsoft is posting on this and VSIP for Newbies. Back in the day when we had to fetch our own water and walk 10 miles to school up hill, we actually had to struggle with reams of unmanaged VSIP code that made no sense whatsever and with support that said “Change this registry setting, that will make that Tool Window come up. We don't know why but just do it.“
• GrantRi from the C# team (Hi Grant!) continues to post on Whidbey C# features and says “Second only to generics I think iterators and anonymous methods are the coolest features added to the C# compiler.“ Given that iterators and anonymous methods are the 2nd and 3rd features left out of 4 (partial classes apply mostly to code gen) I guess it's obvious isn't it? -)
• Grant redeems himself by getting into the great stuff though - the CLR stuff, you know that thing that actually provides all that C# stuff with an awesome post on the Assembly Linker, AL.EXE. Al.exe is one of those core CLR things that I think everyone needs to know about along with assemblies, shared assemblies, GC, etc that come from Richter's book that I always recommend. Great stuff!
• Then the next obvious step is to talk about scenarios where AL.EXE excels and that is in managed resources which he describes well in his post Resources, Managed, Native and ALink. Both must-reads.
• My friend Korby Parnell, who along with Laura John I hung out with the other night, reminds “check out Philip Rieck's Wiki: Visual Studio CTP Change Log, whose self described purpose is to, “use members of the community (you!) to track the feature changes from one CTP to another. New feature added? Feature now broken? Feature gone completely? Write about it here.“ I'll be interested to see how the S2K5CTPCRCL wiki community deals with complex versioning issues.“
• Then Korby talks about two of my loves come together: WinDBG and VSS come together. I actually used to live inside WinDBG in a previous life of software and it's still immensely useful (and necessary) in Rotor.
• Given my passionate interest in XP and software development excellence, my pal James link to A Critical Look at Some Pair Programming Research and the site Hacknot, a site for disciplined developers, is the link of the week. Other good articles on Naming Classes - Do It Once and Do It Right, and Six Legacy Code AntiPatterns. What a find! I encourage you to dive into this site. RSS feed here so you don't even have to go through the work of actually clicking.
• Junfeng Zhang continues excellent Fusion/CLR posts including a pointer to the answer to that wonderful error message “Resource File Trouble: mscorlib.resources couldn't be found!  Large parts of the BCL won't work!“ Whoa, wait, she has a link to a KB article that documents the Fusion Global Assembly Cache API. To think of all the reverse engineering and hacks that would have saved.
• Brad Abrams talks about Watson and WER - Windows Error Reporting