Scott Guthrie has blogged that MS will be releasing the source for .Net 3.5 Base Class Libraries.  He also said "later this year" which might be a hint for a release date for VS 08.

I remember back a few years when I was using Delphi. It shipped with the source for it's base libraries (VCL) and I often referred to this to find out why things worked the way they did - or not.  When I switched to .Net, I missed this for quite a while.

This is a huge  benefit to developers and will help to remove any remaining barriers that some OS zealots like to rant about. Well done!

Oh, what a difference a couple of weeks of head-bashing can make.

Last week I created a new Virtual Machine with WSS, MOSS, VS 2005, WSS SDK, MOSS SDK, Forms Services etc.  I also setup Forms authentication on this using the SQLMembershipProvider.  Sweet!  I had a few hiccups installing and configuring but that's what undo disks are for :). 

Yesterday and today I converted a 6 page word document form to InfoPath and uploaded to my forms server.  It took 10 minutes to get this working as a web enabled form.  Now I just need to create a custom workflow for WSS as an installable feature, some aspx pages, a few WSS lists, some content customisation, integration with CRM, a web service to publish submitted forms to a document management system using OpenDoc and about 20 more forms.  Piece of cake!

In the past, my attempts to us InfoPath and WSS were less enjoyable.  It turns out that a lot of my previous pain was caused by a bad WSS/MOSS install and  using InfoPath on a Virtual PC VM (copy & paste doesn't work well).  While I do still have a few grumbles, I can say that at the moment I love SharePoint - no Matt, not as much as my wife, but it's getting up there :)