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Longhorn and Avalon
I predict that Avalon will be a smashing success with developers. Why? Because XAML is so darn fun to say. Zaml. Just kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Coupled with its partner in crime - BAML - it's got a one-two punch that just can't miss. Way more fun to say than SVG. Or XUL. Yep, best technology name since SCSI.
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Whidbey C# language enhancements
From Tim Sneath's blog entry about new C# features in Whidbey
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Whidbey PDC Questions answered
All I can say is - wow. ScottGu has already answered all of my questions. Unbelievably cool. Gee, who needs the PDC? Just kidding. Even cooler is that the answers to just about all of the questions are “yes, we're doing that”. They seem to be addressing pretty much every limitation that I've encountered doing server control development. Did I mention wow?
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Whidbey PDC Questions
Although I sadly won't be attending the PDC, I do have a few specific questions about Whidbey - mostly around limitations or annoyances that I've encountered in the current framework, and whether they'll be fixed in 2.0. If any good-hearted soul runs across the answers to these questions and has time to post them, I would be most appreciative. Hopefully that answer to these questions isn't “you can already do that, dufus“. On the other hand, maybe that would be a good answer after all (except for the dufus part).
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PDC - not me
Well, now that the PDC has sold out, I guess I can say definitively that I won't be attending. Back when I first heard about this year's PDC, I assumed that I would be attending. And the truth is, I probably would be attending if I wasn't in the midst of a big release cycle and buried in hard-core DHTML coding. Nonetheless, as summer progressed and I learned more about the PDC contents, I curiously found myself less interested that I was initially. Yes, I, like many of my fellow bloggers, had fallen victim to Longhorn Lethargy. As fully geek-enabled as I am, I just can't get excited about an operating system that's at least 2 years away from being released, and probably 3-4 years from being widely deployed. As a software developer, I get paid to develop software that people can actually use, and anything Longhorn related is ways from fitting that criteria.
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EIF
Microsoft has posted EIF, the Enterprise Instrumention Framework, on the Microsoft download site. Interesting. EIF is the .NET API for centralized logging and event monitoring that was only available on the MSDN subscriber downloads site. I never did understand why it was only posted there, but I guess they're making it more readily available.
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Ask and ye shall receive...a Sysinternals RSS feed
Roy Osherove's Feedable site continues to create RSS feeds upon request for sites that don't have them. A few days ago, I submitted a request for a feed for the Sysinternals web site. Lo and behold, when I checked Feedable today the feed was up. Roy - you rock! That's one less web site that I need to poll periodically in my browser.
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Element behaviors
For a while now I've been coding away on a fairly hairy DHTML/JavaScript project. The project is basically a browser-based image viewing and annotation UI. So far I've mostly been working in straight-up JavaScript, with the server component wrapped into an ASP.NET Server Control.