The Patterns & Practices team has recently released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF which provides guidance for ''componetizing'' the development of enterprise-class WPF applications across multiple development teams, with each team owning a piece of the application, and then seamlessly integrating these pieces into one ...

As promised, you can get my decks and demos from www.publicsectordeveloper.com (direct link).  The demos are ''as-is'' but feel free to let me know if something doesn't work anymore. A more detailed explanation of the WPF deck and demos can be found here.  If you are interested in WPF, then don't forget to check out the WPF ...

This is what was formerly known as SQL Server Everywhere.  If you need a lightweight database for your Smart Client applications, then you should definitely check out SQLCE.  One of the great things about SQLCE is that you can deploy it as a private assembly.  This means no admin privs to deploy a local database using ...

Just announced.  MSDN landing page is here. ''Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs are free Add-Ins, Controls, Components, Tools or Samples for you to use with Visual Basic 2005 to make developing great applications even easier! Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0 This toolkit is aimed at simplifying the use of Visual Basic.NET WinForms within a ...

Scott Berry is blogging about WinForms/WPF interop.  His first post is is a nice list of gotchas.  I suspect many people will incrementally introduce WPF into their Windows Forms based applications in places where taking advantage of the rich visualization of WPF makes sense.  This should prove to be a helpful blog for those of ...