Part 1 of Don’s day #2 keynote from the Applied XML Developer's Conference.

Apparently my book has sold out on BookPool.com already. Cool...

Duncan is a fellow Content Strategist at MSDN in charge of protecting VB against semi-colon zealot's like me. : )

Any article that starts like this, I like: "Chris Sells has been running a boutique developer's conference for a few years. It's currently called the 'Applied XML Developers Conference,' with the sub-title 'applied topics for XML and Web Services zealots.' The devcon is clearly a case where, contrary to the spam we all get, size doesn't matter: Chris attracts an influential set of speakers and attendees, and what is discussed at these conferences is often a leading indicator of major trends in web services."

AW has been kind enough to post the preface and a sample chapter (Chapter 9: Design-Time Integration) to the official AW Windows Forms Programming in C# book page. They've also posted Mike Blaszczak's foreword. Enjoy.

According to JungleScan.com, Windows Forms Programming in C# has been as well as 977. That's as well as any of my books in the last year (except Essential .NET, which hit 226, but I didn't write any of that... : ).

I don't know why ASPExperts.com would designate a WinForms book as "Book of the Week," but I'm honored none-the-less. : )

Don’s take on the state of MS’s developer relations (although, as he admits, he's no longer unbiased).