"Welcome to the Windows Forms FAQ. Questions & Answers in this FAQ are from newsgroup posts, various mailing lists and the employees of Syncfusion. I have tried to mention the source wherever I could." George is a long-time colleague of mine at DevelopMentor as well as the chief author on MFC Internals, which spawned ATL Internals. [radio.weblogs.com/0105852/]

"Guest columnist Jim Wilson shows you how the .NET Compact Framework and Smart Device Extensions enable you to develop rich Windows Forms applications for mobile devices."

From Rick Childress: Microsoft will soon be announcing a deal with Covalent to bring ASP.NET to Apache.

From Keith Wedinger: Rumble in the jungle: J2EE versus .Net, Part 1 from JavaWorld.com. Heard a lot about .Net versus J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition)? Wondering what that conflict means for you? Well, we wondered the same thing. So, drawing on our combined experiences from both sides of the fence, we put together an unbiased explanation as to how J2EE and .Net match up. Make no mistake, finding unbiased opinions is difficult—both camps' marketing hype has kicked into overdrive. This two-part series will help you better understand how the two technologies differ and how they are alike, all in the context of building a Web application from design right through to deployment.

"The .NET CF Resource Site is a joint venture between Developmentor and JW Hedgehog, Inc. We've been working fevereshly to bring things online. We are very proud of our Compact Framework Reference Page, which is the most complete reference of .NET CF supported classes and methods we know of."

From Francis Upton: Explore any ActiveX/COM object with the nogoop ActiveX/COM Inspector. Make Automation programming easier by viewing or modifying properties, and invoking methods on these ActiveX/COM objects. The Inspector includes a graphical control design surface, a complete type library browser, and can register and unregister type libraries. It automatically converts type libraries/controls to .NET assemblies, and allows you to browse and access .NET objects (it includes the complete capabilities of the .NET Component Inspector). Requires the .NET Framework runtime (CLR).

From Larry Kuperman: In recent weeks, several new applications have been released that use WindowBlinds technology to create an attractive user interface. Several developers have praised DirectSkin, the development tool from Stardock that lets developers skin their applications GUI.

"MICROSOFT IN THE late-2003 timeframe plans to release the next version of the .Net Framework, code-named Whidbey, a company spokesman confirmed on Monday. The major release of the company's Web development framework is expected to feature rapid application design for Web services, based on work from the company's Global XML Web Services Architecture toolkit team, according to a Microsoft spokesman." [DOTNET-CLR]