It's finally out - Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 1! Here are the relevant links: VS 2005 Beta Developer Center - portal for all VS 2005 Beta related information, including links to download. VS 2005 Express Products - described...

If you haven't seen it already, check out the Smart Client Developer Center on MSDN launched earlier this month. It's a great place to start if you are looking for any kind of information relating to client application development. It also has an RSS...

RichB has some interesting questions in his comments about my earlier post on the client settings feature. I thought it might be worth a separate post to answer them. I don't have the CTP available, but from the documentation it appears that ApplicationSettingsBase...

If you have had a chance to play with Visual Studio Whidbey, you may have noticed some of the cool new features in the Forms designer - snap lines, smart tags and so on. Now what if you desire to expose some of this design time UI in your own application...