The last beta build of Windows Vista has been released to the public. If you’re developing any applications where your intended audience will be using Windows Vista, then this is the time to download Windows Vista before it goes RTM (Released to Manufactures). Any applications that run on Vista RC1/RC2 (Release Candidate), will be certain to work with the RTM version that’s expected to be released very soon.

I came across this article this morning off of one of my saved feeds from blogs.msdn.com, If are wanting to learn WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and you have already know how to develop Windows Forms. Then you are in luck, Microsoft has created a document (“WPF for those who know Windows Forms”) to help everyone willing to make the transition.

Microsoft will be starting shortly a beta release of Service Pack 1 (sp1) for Visual Studio 2005. As of right now Microsoft is currently gathering and processing bug reports and user suggestions, which will be incorporated into SP1.

I found this over at eweek.com a few days ago and found it to be worthy of posting.

Of the product names that we will begin using moving forward. What was formerly called “Atlas” will now have a few names: