I'm constantly amazed at man’s (and woman’s) ability to solve problems. Truly.

My call for Indigo bloggers was very successful (although most recommendations came via email), providing several interesting Indigo web blog possibilities. On the WinFS side, I only know about Mike Deem, and he seems to have gone into hybernation. Does anyone have anyone else that they'd like to recommend as a WinFS blogger? Thanks!

One of the features that Jason built into his ImageStack application was animated zooming using timelines, which he describes in some detail here.

Jason Nadal has posted a sample application for viewing a stack of images in Longhorn (with code).

Lori Pearce, the Matriarch of the Longhorn SDK, describes what goes into the LHSDK and how it’s built. The scope is beyond belief. 

Brian McMaster from the Windows Forms team provides an article on how to automate Windows Forms applications for testing via tools like Visual Test. Check it out if that's the kind of thing you want to do.

In early 2000, Mike Woodring moved Heaven and Earth to write a tool that would inject a DLL into a process’s memory for purposes of finding the command line with which the process was launched. While hanging around Don and Tim this week, Don was all hot on WMI, so we fired it up in .NET and rebuilt Mike’s tool like so:

using System;
using System.Management;

class cmdline {
  static void Main(string[] args) {
    if( args.Length != 1 ) {
      Console.WriteLine(“usage: cmdline <processId>“);
      return;
    }

    ManagementObject obj =
      new ManagementObject(string.Format(“Win32_Process.Handle="{0}\“”, args[0]));
    Console.WriteLine(obj.Properties[“CommandLine”].Value);
  }
}

This makes WMI pretty darn cool in my book. I’ll be reading Jon Fancey’s article on WMI + .NET in the latest MSDN Magazine.

BTW, I have to admit that I’m nowhere near as manly as Mike. I’ll take this sissy code any day. : )

In this concept video, Carter Maslan explores how we imagine that Longhorn’s capabilities could be applied to a financial services application.