Hi there,

This is my status report – just to let everyone know what I’ve been up to. I’ll be posting these occasionally to let you know what’s coming down the pike.

I’m focusing heavily on education and knowledge transfer. As such, I’ve done the following:

1. Posted the list of white papers that we’ve released this week (see duplicate below)

2. I’m setting up some chats with the writers of the white papers – I figure that we’ll try to standardize on a chat around 2 weeks after a paper comes out. That way everyone has time to read it. I’m hoping to post the chat transcript as an add-on to the white paper.

3. I’ve asked various people here to put together short bios so that you can know who you’ll be interacting with


White Papers released this week:

Focus Area: WinForms

Essential Code for Windows Forms Dialog Boxes
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vbvcstechart/html/vbtchEssentialCodeForWindowsFormsDialogBoxes.asp)

Using Windows XP Visual Styles with Controls on Windows Forms
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vbvcstechart/html/vbtchusingwindowsxpvisualstyleswithcontrolsonwindowsforms.asp

Shaped Windows Forms and Controls in Visual Studio .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vbvcstechart/html/vbtchShapedWindowsFormsControlsInVisualStudioNET.asp

Deployment Changes in Visual Basic .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vbvcstechart/html/vbtchdistributingapplicationscreatedwithvisualbasicnet.asp

Security Concerns for Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET Programmers
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vbvcstechart/html/vbtchsecurityconcernsforvisualbasicnetprogrammers.asp


Upcoming focus areas:

Week of 1/28: Web/ASP.
Week of 2/11: VS Tools
Week of 2/18: Enterprise


If you have any ideas for white papers – let me know.