"MICROSOFT IN THE late-2003 timeframe plans to release the next version of the .Net Framework, code-named Whidbey, a company spokesman confirmed on Monday. The major release of the company's Web development framework is expected to feature rapid application design for Web services, based on work from the company's Global XML Web Services Architecture toolkit team, according to a Microsoft spokesman."
[DOTNET-CLR]
"Microsoft Corp. is mapping out the next major version of its .Net Framework, with features designed to make it easier for enterprise developers to deploy .Net applications and Web services."
[DOTNET-WINFORMS]
My friend Tim Ewald reorganizes the Web Services portion of the MSDN web site and my friends Don Box and Martin Gudgin contribute new material. Highly recommended (both the articles *and* the friends : ).
"The Visual Studio .NET Integration software development kit is available free of charge through Summit Software for enterprise customers with a Select Licensing or Enterprise Licensing Agreement. More information can be found by visiting http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/partners/."
[www.razorsoft.net/weblog]
"In a year, we have achieved plenty:
-94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
-A complete CLI implementation:
-A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
-An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
-A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
-37,140 file changes in CVS.
-92,000 lines of C code.
-437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
-A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
-Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions, System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
-The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly."
[www.go-mono.com]
"Avalon is the key to the new 'inductive' user interface that will debut in Longhorn, sources say. The new UI will allow users to organize and share information more intuitively, most likely using some kind of 'dock,' a la Microsoft Office XP, sources say."
[www.activewin.com]
"Microsoft Wednesday released a new version of its Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) toolkit, an add-on that helps developers build Web services using its Visual Studio development tool. Microsoft's SOAP toolkit 3.0 includes support for DIME (Direct Internet Message Encapsulation) and WS-Attachments, both of which define how to package binary data up with SOAP messages."
[www.activewin.com]
