Check out David Kean and I on our Channel 9 overview of the Portable Library Project .

The beans have been actually spilled already - I was working on a few command line tools for framework architecture verification, to help with my own work. We decided to make them available for download. They can be found on Code Gallery: http://code...

Krzysztof has blogged about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) a while ago. Today, the Application Framework Core team has published the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of MEF! For those that are not familiar with the topic, MEF " provides...

Writing applications that interact with data sources, such as databases, XML documents, or Web Services such as Flickr or Amazon, is made easier in the .NET Framework 3.5 with the addition of a set of features collectively referred to as LINQ ( L anguage...