By request, here is an update on the book.

Going slow, but making some forward progress. My developmental editor (Michael Weinhardt) just moved from Australia to the US, he now works at Microsoft on the SDK team as an author. Pretty cool! The good news is that means we can actually meet face to face to talk about the book.

The book is slated to have 7 chapters plus an appendix and an introduction, currently the status is:

1. Introduction - I'll write this late - 0%
2. Applications - Done and edited - 100%
3. Controls - Content complete, editing - 80%
4. Layout - Content complete, waiting for edit - 75%
5. Visuals - Content complete, waiting for edit - 75%
6. Data - 3/4 content complete - 60%
7. Actions - 3/4 content complete - 60%
8. Styles - not started - 0%
9. Appendix, "Base Services" - not started - 0%

When the next CTP is released, I'll be able to start posting some of my code samples up here.