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Phil Winstanley blogs about the very slow pace of the SqlServer(s) behind the blogs here at weblogs.asp.net. I agree, the blogs are very very slow (posting a comment takes ages and reading the main feed is often resulting in a timeout).

Alex Thissen blogged about it this morning after keeping his readers into the dark for more than a day after his announcement that some big news related to Objectspaces was about to be posted:

... have you seen the Gran Turismo 4 trailer already? If not, check it out here. As a PS2 and GT3 owner I already knew what kind of quality the name 'Gran Turismo' stands for, but after seeing this trailer... I'm beyond words... Unbelievable, how realistic it looks and acts. Can't wait!

Tim Brookins blogs that MBF (Microsoft Business Framework) has been delayed and will be released when Longhorn is. For what I've seen from MBF, it will be a very great platform and reading Tim's explanations I can fully understand why MS is delaying it, as much in MBF requires technology released with Longhorn anyway.

One of my best friends, Jeroen van den Bos, is now also blogging on weblogs.asp.net! Welcome!

Internetnews.com reports that Microsoft is working on a new feature for Windows Update which will remove all worms from your system. It's slated for release at the end of the year. Personally I find every initiative to offer a service for customers to fix their systems a good one. However will this particular initiative be a good one?

Roy Osherove organizes a very cool contest for .NET developers out there: the Most Useful/Innovative VS.Net Add-in/Macro contest! The amount of prizes is very high, so don't miss this opportunity to win cool stuff with writing some cool add-in. I'm one of the judges but I promise I'll be gentle .

I've finally managed to finish an article I wanted to write for a long time: Really complex databinding: ITypedList with weakly typed collections. The article describes in full how one of the most complex interfaces of .NET, ITypedList can be used to provide information to controls like the DataGrid control so complex databinding can be controlled by the developer: which property to hide, which property has to be set as read only because of the state of an object, which inner structure has to be exposed as a property etc. etc.. The example used in this article walks the reader through various topics: Custom attributes, ITypedList implementation for hierarchical data and non-hierarchical data and how to hide a property of a class in a databinding scenario. Source code for this example project is provided in C#. With this article I hope to pass on some information I've gathered during the past year working with ITypedList as the documentation on this important interface is pretty limited and a lot of developers will have to implement ITypedList some day.

For the article, click here.