Marc Clifton, author of the MyXaml open source project, publishes a series of articles exploring opportunities for improvement for the Avalon architects to consider:

• Is Microsoft Bollixing Up XAML?–a look at “tag names are class names”
• Is Microsoft Bollixing Up XAML? — The joys of VisualTree
• Is Microsoft Bollixing Up XAML? — The case of the missing collection
• Is Microsoft Bollixing Up XAML? — Decorating the house of cards

I only wish that he would post his thoughts of how XAML should look.

Don Box expands on his explanation of HTTP.SYS, IIS and XPSP2, including providing a .NET Whidbey sample that uses HTTP.SYS along side of IIS6 running on XPSP2.

He said, “Do you think we should support RSS in Longhorn?”

I said, “Well, there’s that RSS Tile…”

He said, “Yeah, but shouldn’t we do more?”

I said, “Well, sure, what we should really do is blah, but we’d also need foo to make that work.”

He said, “Right. What if we did quuz to enable foo?”

I said, “Wow. That’d be cool. Can you actually make that happen?”

He said, “Yep.”

Whoa.

I was reading Paul Vick, who agrees with Carl Franklin that the "This American Life" weekly NPR radio program rocks (I'm paraphrasing : ). In addition, I really like Garrison Keillor, "Whad'Ya Know?" and a bunch of the financial programs on AM radio. However, unlike my time-shifting TV appliance, I don't have any good way to time-shift radio (the AM stuff is rife with commercials, so really needs a fast-forward feature). Anyone got something for me? Ideally, I'd be able to dump programs to an MP3 player for convenient playback.

While it's true that a new preview version of Visual Studio 2005 is available for MSDN Subscribers, DO NOT INSTALL THIS BUILD OF VS2005 ON LONGHORN. It won't work.

In this piece, Karsten digs into some of the advanced features of Indigo, building the code to start from scratch on the client and server, then adding the code to add state management, reliability to the messages and asynchronous messaging.

First, I'm swamped in work. Then, I'm swamped in news. Finally, I’m swamped in sales, with the book at it's all-time low on Amazon.

I swear I only stopped reading blogs for a coupla days, but interesting news has just surged! For example, I just found out that MSDN has an entire web site dedicated to extending VS.NET. This includes the legendary VSIP and a set of extensions that lets you build VSIP packages in managed code. Very cool.

[via Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11]