Shawn Burke from the Windows Forms team is trying to make the Windows Forms source available for stepping into during a debugging session. Wahoo! He's pretty sure he can give it to us w/o the comments. That's a step up from viewing it via Reflector, imo. Leaving in comments requires all kinds of reviewing work that he may not be able to get to. What do you think? Let Shawn know.

Shawn Burke, Dev. Manager on the Windows Forms team, thinks that MS has finally figured out the problem with controls disappearing from the Designer and points to a fix, mentions an SP for VS03 and promises these fixes applied to VS05.

Shawn, on behalf of the Windows Forms developer community, I’d like to just say: Wahoo!

Kevin Moore, a PM on the Avalon team, is in London for one night (Feb. 28) and wants to gather the Avalon enthused together for dinner. Microsoftie's have expense accounts for this kind of thing, so if you can stand to listen to Avalon talk over shepherd's pie, you should let him know!

Mobiform has updated their Aurora XAML editor for using on the November 2004 CTP of Avalon.

Here. Holy cow; there are already jobs for XAML folk...

Joe Marini, the king of code-less Avalon, has done it again, this time adding interactivity to his samples using Avalon property triggers, all w/o a line of code.

Ari Bixhorn, Lead Product Manager on the Indigo team, talks about his hopes and dreams for Indigo.

I didn’t know that I’d been nominated, but apparently I was canonized yesterday as the Patron Saint of Smart Client Applications. I promise to be a firm but fair Deity. : )