Chris Sano just posted an article on MSDN about ColorPicker.NET and some of the custom WinForms controls that it uses. This is a very informative article for anyone doing custom controls in .NET. And, the ColorPicker.NET dialog looks really good. I look...

The latest MSDN Magazine has a great article about Visual Studio Team System . If you're interested in the end-to-end development process tools that we're working on for the Whidbey release but haven't had a chance to install it yet, here's a good way...

An interview with Steve Cook , an architect on Visual Studio Team System , has just been published on DNJ Online . In it, Steve describes Software Factories , and how DSL Tools are an integral part of that vision. It's a very interesting read if you're...

Liangxiao and Robin are testers working on the Distributed System Designers . Who better to show you how to use these designers than the people that work with and test them every day. They have posted a new demo of how to use the designers on Channel...

Here's the first mention I saw of the latest preview release of DSL Tools in the media. Hopefully, developers will start making use of some of these features to create their own model-driven designers.

The DSL Tools have released the March preview for you to look at. What's new in the latest release: Lots of bug fixes Validations for the Designer Definition (DD) model. Read more about them from Gareth and Stuart .

In prior versions of .NET, there were lots of discussions about how to support single-instance WinForms applications. Here are a couple of links discussed some ways to do that: here and here and here's one in C++ . For Whidbey, some of that functionality...

Keith Short posted a short description of the Software Factories concept. It's brief but gives you a good overview of what a factory is. Also, it talks about how domain-specific languages and model-driven development fit into the Software Factory vision...

With the Distributed System Designers nearing Beta 2, I'm going back to working on some of the core shared pieces of the DSL (Domain-Specific Language) Tools. In the past, I worked on the design surface that's shared by all of the Whitehorse designers...

I just read in a blog post that Microsoft released the Portuguese Discoveries Theme Pack for Windows XP . It sounds pretty cool: Show your pride in Portuguese culture! The Portugese Discoveries Theme Pack features wallpapers, icons, mouse pointers and...