From Hun Boon Teo: A master dissertation by Howard Kim from Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. His paper covers topics such as AOP(AspectJ,Hyper/J) in Java and .NET (CLAW,AOP#), comparision of the different implementations for both platforms. A alpha version of the implementation can be downloaded from http://aosd.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/AspectCSharp/AspectCSharpHomepage.htm

From Jesse Ezell: "We've just announced our .NET Jabber SDK for Mono. Our SDK now lets .NET developers build cross platform instant messaging applications that target Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows CE, and Windows Pocket PC 2002. This release also supports multiple character sets such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Italian."

From John Bristowe: Six new specifications released! They are WS-Policy, WS-PolicyAttachment, WS-PolicyAssertions, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust, and WS-SecureConversation! Oh my!

From Mark Pearce: As COM is dragged kicking and screaming towards the airlock, a strangely dry-eyed COM warrior celebrates its demise.

"DataViewTree is a UserControl that can load hierarchical datasets into a Windows Forms TreeView control. The included sample project shows how to load an xml file into a dataset which is then passed to the DataViewTree control for display. Complete source for the DataViewTree control and sample project is included in the download." I know lots of folks want to data bind hierarchical data and this one includes the source if it doesn't do exactly what you're after.

From Alintex: Alintex Script Host lets you run scripts written in three Microsoft .NET languages - VB, C# and JScript. One can take full advantage of the power of the .NET Framework Class Library (FCL) to produce lightweight, yet powerful applications and utilities. Amongst other features, it allows you to mix and match all three supported .NET languages in the same script, yet optionally produce a single XML based Portable Script file for easy distribution. Alintex Script Host is FREE for both personal and commercial use.

There has been all kinds of activity on Genghis since the v0.3 release. I've been gathering these bits together to make a coherent v0.4 release in the new year (right after I finish my darn book!). Those of you with final bits and pieces that need to get in before that release, please get them to me ASAP. Thanks.

"Chris Sells discusses how controls are scaled and arranged on a form, and how the scaling and arrangement features are used to meet the needs of different users with respect to system font size and the size of the data being entered."