Scott Guthrie gave a presentation to the Visual Studio User Group (VISUG) in Belgium showcasing one of the most recent VS “Orcas” builds.

I’ve held off linking to it, since there seems to be a problem with the video feed on MSDN which causes it keep crashing IE at inopportune moments. It’s better than it was a few days ago, but still not perfect. If you persevere, though the first half of the presentation is worth listening to (skip to 5:00 to jump the VISUG introductions).

Continuing this week’s theme of catching up on posts I should have spotted during the last two weeks of December, here’s an interesting one from Somasegar:

Here’s another one for your RSS reader and mailboxes. Redmond Media Group have just launched the first edition of Redmond Developer News magazine, a monthly (I think) glossy magazine detailing all the latest goings on within Microsoft development projects. If you’re based in the US, there’s a free subscription currently available by going here.

Linked to my previous post, the first “WPF/E” CTP has been released today, too. You can find details, including some very nice looking example code on Scott Guthrie’s blog.

To end the week, here’s a quick pointer to a useful RSS feed for anyone following the maturation of Visual Studio and .NET ‘Orcas’ as it heads towards release in the second-half of 2007.