Here. In writing the resources chapter of my WinForms book, I found that there was no single utility for displaying the resource contents of assemblies, .resx files and .resource files (even embedded .resources files) in a way that made sense to me. So, I built one. Enjoy.

Here. I just stumpled onto a set of very cool .NET samples from Jeff Key and *had* to share them. There are too many cool things to pick a favorite.

Here. From Chris Sells' Marketing Guy: The Pioneers of WinForms PhoneCon is a new method for attending Chris Sells's popular DevCons. The whole unit can share a PC and speakerphone to attend a PhoneCon conference cheaper than 1 person can attend a regular conference. PhoneCons are spread over 8 weeks to give you time to absorb the conference information, instead of having your head crammed full of too much information in just 1-2 days. Best of all, you get to conduct conversations with leading .NET experts as well as your fellow attendees, offering a 'virtual hallway' before, during, and after each session!

Here. I did an interview a long time ago and just noticed that my most fun quotes were actually printed in USAToday. Cool!

Here. From Jesse Ezell: "I have put together a Xopus wrapper for .NET. Basically, it isolates you from having to know all the Xopus details: just drag, drop, and set the designer properties." Xopus is an opensource browser based WYSIWYG xml / xsl based editor that works natively in IE 5.5+ / Mozilla 1.3+ / Netscape 7+. Pretty cool stuff.

Here. From Ben Houston: This simple wrapper, written in Managed C++, allows for developers to make use of NVIDIA's new Cg shader language from within a C# or VB.NET application. It is simple to use with existing OpenGL wrappers such as Llyod Dupond's CsGL. A sample application that makes use of OpenGL and Cg via C#, ExoEngine, is available for download on the same site.

Here. My friend and author of Pragmatic ADO.NET has released a package of his tools to the community, including: -A general library of ADO.NET utilities -A new release of my Improved DataSet Generator -A Stored Procedure Wrapper Class Generator Shawn says that contributions are welcome.

Here. I'm not much of a graphics programmer, but I know folks have been anxiously awaiting DX9, which includes MDX (Managed DirectX) the managed API to DirectX for .NET programmers. This release provides a bunch of non-.NET enhancements as well.