David was kind enough to point out some rough spots in the SplitButton sample , so I've gone ahead and updated it with his suggestions for fixes. Please let me know any other suggestions as this seems to be a popularly-reused sample.

Feb CTP is out . Rather than have a separate install, Cider is now integrated into the Visual Studio "Orcas" Development Tools for WinFX. (Note the designer requires a full version of Visual Studio 2005.) Tim and Karsten have posted a list of "breaking...

Slightly old news, but hey I'm not always hip to the latest info. It looks like there's a draft of the Windows UI Guidelines for Windows Vista out ... (Via jmazner there's also a new draft of logo guidelines out.)

There are three great articles from the Windows Forms team to read in the March issue of MSDN Magazine: Winning Forms : Practical Tips For Boosting The Performance Of Windows Forms Apps Milena Salman Text Rendering : Build World-Ready Apps Using...

Ben has written a great article for the April issue of MSDN magazine. You can see it online here . Basically the idea was to write a tool that would allow you to inspect properties and events while your form is running. This tool can be quite handy for...

I thought I'd put up a few good reads: Mapping PIs are going away in the next CTP. Rob promises to post a tool to help convert your apps . (In the next CTP, the RichTextBox stuff will start working.) Rob talks about Attached Properties and Markup...

MainMenu had a feature called RadioCheck, which simply displayed a circle next to the selected option. Specifically, RadioCheck was a feature of MenuItem - if "RadioCheck" and "Checked" were true, a round ball would show up instead of a checkmark. ...

There's a nice new MSDN TV episode talking about Data Templates and Control Templates .

Regis, the dev on DataGridView has put up two new whitepapers on creating custom columns. Check it out .

In most of the commonly used collections in Windows Forms 2.0, you'll find that they also take a string in addition to an integer index. The string corresponds to the "Name" property on the corresponding item. this.button1 = new System.Windows.Forms...