Here. Brad Abrams, Lead PM on the .NET Framework team, is asking how you'd like to see Microsoft improve the WinFX documentation. Don't be shy; complaining now can improve your life later.
It bugs me that Bush would steal JFK’s dream of getting off of our planet, especially after we’ve already done it. Why not reach for getting America off of foreign oil by developing alternative energy sources, freeing us from the need to screw around with other countries and making us targets for terrorism? That’s a cool dream. But noooo, you can’t do that one, because you’re just a shill for US big oil!
Sorry about that… I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Here. Patrick Thompson, a PM on the WinFS team, talks about how types are defined in WinFS and how to extend them and create your own (although the extensibility of WinFS isn't enabled in the PDC bits).
In this chapter, Brent Rector provides his overview of WinFS, including the programming model and how to access items from the WinFS API and via SQL directly (the latter sounds a lot more fun that it is : ).
Here. Jeff Bogdan, one of the chief architects on the Microsoft Avalon team, kicks off the new Avalon column that he shares with Chris Anderson, the other chief architect on the Avalon team. These guys know Avalon because they had a hand in inventing it, so I'm *very* much looking forward to this column. Recommended.
Here. Yasser Shohoud, a member of the Indigo team at Microsoft, kicks off his new Indigo column with a walk-through of how to get started programming Indigo using the Visual Studio .NET templates that come with the Longhorn SDK. Yasser is also the author of the well-regarded Real World XML Web Services: For VB and VB .NET Developers, so I'm looking forward to more discussions of how to apply Indigo in the real world. Recommended.
