In response to a comment on my previous post on this topic, I emailed some folks internally to find out what new is planned for Whidbey in the area of Windows Forms - MFC interop. Here is what Anson Tsao , a Program Manager on the VC++ team, had to say...

[Update: Reformatted and edited the quote below] Here is a great summary by Mark Boulter (Tech Lead on .NET Client Team): To summarize our official position on using Windows Forms controls as ActiveX controls: v1.0 of Windows Forms only...

From an internal mailing list (answers posted by Suzanne ): Q: App compiled on v1.0. When the app is run on a computer with v1.0 and v1.1 (and even v2.0 when released), what version of the framework will it automatically use? A: v1.0. Q: App...

Here is a list of some resources you can use to improve performance of Windows Forms applications: Articles on windowsforms.net. Talk by Shawn Burke (Optimizing Your Application). Headtrax performance report . CLR Performance related bloggers...

The move is complete - from blogs.gotdotnet.com to blogs.msdn.com . Many thanks to the MSDN/GotDotNet team for migrating all the content over and making this transition painless! .Text is pretty cool too.