Lance's Whiteboard

PDC 2003 Articles on Longhorn, Whidbey, Yukon, Indigo, WinFs, etc.

PDC, General Articles, & Press Releases:

• Bill Gates PDC 2003 keynote transcript  [ MSDN ]
• Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap 2004-2005  [ MSDN ]
• Microsoft Details Next Wave of Software Innovation to Developers at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 [ PressPass ]
• Developer Productivity Takes Center Stage in Future Versions of Microsoft Visual Studio and SQL Server [ PressPass ]
• PDC Bloggers [ blog ]
• PDC Keynote Summary [ blog ]
• PDC 2003 Sessions (Presentation materials)  [ MSDN ]
• Longhorn: Whining by a Barrel of Rocks  [ MSDN ]
• PDC Product Roundup

Longhorn:

• Living La Vida Longhorn  [ MSDN ] 
• Longhorn Developer Center  [ MSDN ]
• Longhorn SDK  [ MSDN ]
• Windows Longhorn Live from PDC 2003
• Release Notes for the Microsoft Windows Code-Named "Longhorn" SDK  [ MSDN ] 
• Longhorn Newsgroups
• Longhorn Blogs [ blog ]
• Windows Beta Web Site
• Lap Around Longhorn  [ MSDN_TV ]

Aero:

• Aero User Experience Guidelines: Sampler for PDC 2003  [ MSDN ] 

Avalon:

• Avalon: Create Real Apps Using New Code and Markup  [ MSDN ]

WinFS:

• WinFS: Revolutionary File Storage System Lets Users Search and Manage Files Based on Content  [ MSDN ]

WinFX:

• What is WinFX -The New Programming Interface Introduced in Windows "Longhorn"  [ MSDN_TV ]

Whidbey:

• ASP.NET Whidbey Home  [ MSDN ]
• ASP.NET "Whidbey" Overview  [ MSDN ]
• Preview of Web Development with Visual Studio Whidbey  [ MSDN ]
• New Code Compilation Features in ASP.NET Whidbey [ MSDN ]
• Master Pages in ASP.NET Whidbey [ MSDN ]
• Globalization Architecture in ASP.NET Whidbey [ MSDN ]
• ADO.NET v2.0: ObjectSpaces Delivers an O/R Mapper

Indigo:

• Indigo FAQ [MSDN]
• A Guide to Developing and Running Connected Systems with Indigo  [ MSDN ]
• PDC - Day 2 - WSV303 - Indigo, Using XSD, CLR Types and Serialization in Web Services [ blog ]
• The Road to Indigo Technology Roadmap (video)  [ MSDN ]

Yukon & ADO.NET:

• Overview of SQL Server "Yukon" for the Database Developer  [ MSDN ]
• Top 30 Features of SQL Server "Yukon"

Languages & .NET Framework:

• C# Language Specifications  [ MSDN ]
• Gear Up for Generics
• An Introduction to C# Generics  [ MSDN ]
• Generics for C# and .NET CLR  [ MS Research ] 
• More on Generics in the CLR  [ MSDN Mag ] 

This isnt all-inclusive, but a good start. There are so many articles from MS right now, its going to take a while to catalog.