There are two new articles on MSDN which are worth a good read:

• Craft A Rich UI For Your .NET App With Enhanced Windows Forms Support describes new Windows Forms 2.0 features for smart client development (including IDE enhancements, ClickOnce, etc.)

  “Windows Forms 2.0 is far richer than any Windows application development platform that preceded it, with tons of improvements across the board. And they’re all waiting for you when you create a new Windows Forms project.”

“Kitty” is a street cat I’ve recently adopted.
He was also chosen to test Flickr’s blogging ability and become the subject for my first-ever post from Flickr!

After hearing a lot of the buzz around Flickr I decided to open my own gallery and try it out.
Having an online web storage for photos could prove useful on my trip to New Zealand…
You can find my gallery at https://www.flickr.com/photos/93825643@N00/

Check it out at https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/EntLib2.asp.

The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks
designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges.
Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be
used “as is,” extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise
development projects. This release of Enterprise Library includes six
application blocks (Caching, Cryptography, Data Access, Exception Handling,
Logging and Security), and provides similar functionality to the previous
releases for the .NET Framework 1.1; however, Enterprise Library has been
redesigned to use the new capabilities of the .NET Framework
2.0.

One of my goals for 2006 (full list on a future post) was to read more books and especially ones that do not directly relate to my work (meaning that books about programming and software development do not count). So here’s a list of what I plan to read on the next 1-3 months:

I’ve got 6 invitations to Messenger Live! I’ll give them away to the first few who’ll comment here…

MDXInfo is a new site created by DirectX enthusiasts containing articles, tutorials and resources about Microsoft’s Managed DirectX. From the site’s main page:

Just noticed this new site focusing on 3D graphics using WPF.

I’ve purchased www.developerzen.com to act as my blog’s domain name.
The www.ekampf.com domain name still acts as my main domain name and developerzen.com will specifically point to this blog.

Engadget recently published the transcript for an interview they had with Bill Gates at CES. You can find it online at The Engadget Interview: Bill Gates (again!).
Some highlights: