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The Whidbey May CTP documentation describes a new IDE feature called Object Test Bench. It sounds like this allows you to create instances of objects and poke at them in the design environment, without having to create a test project and write code. Looks neat, but either it isn't hooked up yet or I just can't figure out how to work it. Anybody know?

 Now that my Whidbey May CTP help system is working, I thought I’d post some comments on the new help system.

California Senate Passes Watered Down Anti-Gmail Bill 

Mike Schinkel, president of Xtras.Net, made an offer on his personal blog of a free XDN Professional membership (http://www.xtras.net/xdn) during the month of May 2004 for anyone that blogs about .NET frequently. If you are a .NET blogger, see Mike's post for how to get your free XDN membership.

[UPDATE] - Rob Caron posted a fix for the help problems. Thanks, Rob (and Josh and Saurabh, for responding to my post).

Microsoft has posted the May Community Tech Preview of Visual Studio 2005 on the MSDN Subscriber download site. Woo hoo!  

Looks like Web Services Enhancements 2.0 final release just popped onto MS Downloads. Download here.

I ran across this post recently which mentions that the default indentation character for Whidbey has changed from tabs to spaces for the default C# profile.  I'm not sure I like the sound of that. Now, I'll admit I'm a tab guy, not a space guy, but that's not my concern. Won't we end up with a mess of mixed indentation styles as we edit existing code? Sounds potentially very ugly. I realize that you can set the option back to tabs, but I'll bet most people won't.