Markus Mielke, a PM doing performance for the Avalon team, lists some pointers on perf in the PDC build of Longhorn and provides a place for you to send in your perf complaints (him).

ComputerWorld corralled an Orbiz developer and took down his observations about Longhorn from a developer point of view. It’s interesting to see the perspective.

If you missed the PDC, the WSA is sponsoring a day-long “Best of” in Redmond on December 16, 2003. Learn about the new technologies coming in Microsoft's "Longhorn", "Whidbey" and "Yukon" directly from the leaders driving the evolution of the Microsoft platform and tools, including Don Box, Scott Guthrie and John Shewchuk.

I noticed that Stephane Rodriguez put an SDI and MDI wizard up on CodeProject. I've been *dying* for those forever, but I couldn't get his to work. Anyone come up with a simplified set up for them? Anyone interested in porting them to Genghis?

XAML is the Longhorn mark-up language for declaring object types and instances and hooking them up to code. While it's most often used for declarative Avalon UI, it's useful for more than that. In fact, one enterprising 3rd party has just released a beta tool that provides a XAML subset for .NET 1.1. It's not quite the same, but interesting never the less.

Ethan Brown has done a massive update to the wkssync tool, the command line tool for accessing source from GotDotNet workspaces. Thanks, Ethan!

Rory does it again. : )

CsvFileTester is a tool inspired by Shawn Wildermuth’s ExcelFileTester, which he wrote ’cuz I kept asking him how to do queries on .xls files. However, because the Excel query language has no where or order by clauses, I gave that up in favor of comma-separated text files.

I wrote CsvFileTester (with Shawn’s help) to explore the ADO.NET/ODBC/JET support for CSV files and I was amazed at how comprehensive the support was. And, since I can never remember the syntax and limitations between one use of Jet expression syntax and the next, I put a bunch of samples in the combobox.

Enjoy.