Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I have however been laid low for the last couple of days with flu. So I have no real progress to report at the moment.

Still I did yet a reply from the editor of the Visual Systems Journal magazine saying that he would enter a little piece about the release of the Krypton Toolkit in the News section.

I have had a few bug reports and a feedback emails which have been extremely useful in showing were improvements need to be made. The next release needs improved documentation, more extensive example applications as well as the full source for the examples as well.

Well, I am off back to bed. Hopefully this year of back luck (chicken pox, food poisoning and now flu) will end when I get to Australia and sunny climbs!

.NET Bloggers can get a free copy of the DotNetMagic user interface library by putting up a blog entry about the recent release of the Krypton Toolkit. There are no catches and it will say your $399 from the usual retail price.

You can read the details of the offer at…

http://www.componentfactory.com/blogoffer.php

Good news, we have reached our first milestone. The first release of the Krypton Toolkit has now been made and 57 people have downloaded it in the first 24 hours.

So far I have only broadcast it’s availability by creating a message on two different developer forums, Channel9 and a Microsoft Developer Forum. It seems that the majority of the downloads are being generated by the Channel9 message at the moment.

I will be spending the next couple of evenings trying to find ways of letting developers know about the Toolkit in order to try and gain some momentum and start to establish a base of developers that are aware of the library.