"Please review the Microsoft security alert regarding W32/Mydoom@MM and take appropriate action for your environment. This rapidly spreading, mass-mailer virus affects Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Web-based e-mail.”

“Carl interviews developer and author Brian Noyes. Brian has focused his studies and development efforts on Smart Client development, and in this interview brings us from AutoDeployment of Windows Forms applications into ClickOnce, the next-generation deployment and update technology from Microsoft that will ship with the .NET Framework 2.0. We talk about the issues around AutoDeployment, and how Microsoft is addressing those issues with ClickOnce.”

ClickOnce debuts in Whidbey and will be a big part of the deployment story in Longhorn.

Ryan Dawson built a fun system stats utility showing off the Avalon's animation of object rotation, position, translation and opacity. And more importantly, he describes how he did it.

Tim Tabor points out a new find, a mapping from Win32 API functions to the closest equivalent in the .NET Framework class library. This is an amazing resource for folks making the switch.

I just learned today that one of the most interesting conversationalist in the Windows development world has started a PDF newsletter. In this issue, he provides a quick guide to writing build scripts in MSBuild, the new build engine in Whidbey and Longhorn. Subscribed.

Michael has put together a very nice implementation of IBindingList that derives from ArrayList and adds generic sorting based on the types of the items in the list. Very handy for adding sorting to your DataGrid when binding to custom types instead of DataSets.

MSDN launches it's new Data Access & Storage Developer Center for all your data access and storage needs. Check out Christa’s goals for the site and don't hesitate to send your comments her way.

"Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd ('cheered') Hoek are two of the key figures in the Windows User Experience team at Microsoft, and they've worked on some the company's more advanced user interface projects over the past several years, including MSN "Mars," Internet Explorer/shell, Windows 'Neptune,' Windows XP, and now Longhorn. While my first (somewhat humorous) run-in with the Windows User Experience folks came during a Windows XP Beta 2 event in Seattle three years ago, the team has been working tireless toward Longhorn since the early days of Windows 95, when it moved Windows to the Explorer shell.

“This interview is the first in a series highlighting the personalities behind the technology. It’s often all too easy to depersonalize a company as large as Microsoft, but there are real people behind these products, and they care very deeply that the products they create are as aesthetically beautiful, functional, secure, and reliable as they can be.”

I agree, Paul. Thanks.