Here is all the information you need: http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/default.aspx

BrianPe (the Architect) of Cider has an all-informative post about the perf work we (read he) have been doing for the RC release of DEV10. Worth a read, it really makes me feel proud and happy to be a part of Cider team (and devdiv) and you can read it...

Mark Wilson-Thomas (PM on Cider team) gives a sneak-preview of whats coming in VS 2010 : http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Mark-Wilson-Thomas-WPF-and-Silverlight-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010/ - Enjoy!

Karl (our newest PM on the team) presented cool power tool that enable developers to quickly layout and maintain Line of Business Application forms using the UI controls that ship with Visual Studio. More here : http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml...

When you have a chance watch the great stuff that was showcased at PDC here

Get started ... http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

Here's a great post by Tim Sneath that talks about new features in WPF and VS-shell. : http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/11/03/wpf-developers-pdc-wrap-up-and-visual-studio-tooling-update.aspx

This is my first blog since I have changed teams last year. Wow, its almost 5 months since I am in this new team and there are no excuses for not blogging. I have decided to actively start blogging about this very cool technology that I am working...

There are lots of new things in the Whidbey release for Windows Forms. There are a bunch of new controls and components like StripControls (ToolStrip, MenuStrip, ContextMenuStrip, StatusStrip), DataGridView, SplitContainer, WebBrowser. We have also...

One of the most frequent questions asked on the community forum is how can I make my userControl act as a containerControl (panel) which allows me to add controls at design time. In V1.0 and V1.1 you had to write a lot if code to do this, but in Whidbey...

Mark Boulter (Technical Lead PM) Dot Net Client team explains the new features for Whidbey. He explains his definition of "smart" clients in the first half and then talks about his work here at Microsoft. Here's the complete interview Part1 Part2

Soma's blog describes some of the projects that have been undertaken by Microsoft Research lab.

Today I recieved a question on Winforms discussion list about SelectNextControl function on control and I thought it might be worth sharing some thoughts on this topic. The name "SelectNextControl" suggests that this function would select the next control...

Control.Invalidate() v/s Control.Update() v/s Control.Refresh() Before discussing each one of the above functions, let’s look at how winforms controls paint. Windows controls paint is response to WM_PAINT messages . This message is sent when UpdateWindow...

Brian explains how these features in whidbey can be used to design abstract forms. As usual, a great post by Brian .

Coding : 1) Use BeginUpdate( ) and EndUpdate( ) while performing any bulk operation that would cause the window to redraw itself. a. Large number of items to ListView. b. Large number of nodes to TreeView. BeginUpdate() sends a WM_REDRAW message passing...

This is a great one stop shop for 1.0 and 1.1. APIs that map to there corresponding Win32 APIs.

How IntPtr’s can be dangerous? IntPtrs are usually used to store GDI/Kernel/OS or Window Handles and are used by managed code to pass these handles to native code using P/Invoke. Problems will occur if the IntPtr represents some native resource (memory...

Andrew (SDET) from Dot Net Client Team starts blogging .

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/secmod/html/secmod76.asp

When are the objects GCed? When the garbage collector finds objects that can be reclaimed, it checks each object to determine the object's finalization requirements. If an object implements a finalizer and has not disabled finalization by calling SuppressFinalize...

Joe Stegman (Dot Net Client Team Lead PM) explains in this video : http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=21751

Joe Stegman demos the power of new Windows forms features. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=21657 http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=21658

http://www.urbanpotato.net/default.aspx/document/1936

http://blogs.msdn.com/jfoscoding/archive/2004/12/03/274186.aspx