″Eric Rudder, Senior Vice President of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, showed off Indigo at this morning’s VSLive! keynote. Indigo, Microsoft’s unified programming model for building service-oriented applications, is a key component of Microsoft’s next Windows release (code-named Longhorn). Rudder asserted that Indigo will provide improved interoperability and productivity, as well as a more flexible security model for developers creating service-oriented applications. He also noted that Indigo will make it easier to build secure, reliable, transacted Web services.”

By far my favorite part of this presentation (except for watching Ari’s heart beat at 155bpm) was watching Eric show the small transitions needed to move existing code to Indigo from ASMX, Enterprise Services, WSE2, MSMQ and Remoting and how well Indigo will integrate with BizTalk and SQL Server in the future. I’m sure it won’t all be changing attributes and removing extraneous code, but if the majority of the porting work fits that model, I’ll be impressed indeed. Of course, as Eric says, there’s no requirement to move your code to Indigo if you don’t want to; the goal of the Indigo team is to make it smooth if you want to.

And finally, Eric says that we’ll be releasing a new WinFX CTP in March, which will include both Avalon and Indigo (although it may be March 38th or March 43rd : ).

If you’re not familiar with the AllowPartiallyTrustedCallersAttribute (pronounced “apt-ka” by those in the know…) or worse, if you just apply it ’til stuff works, you need to read this blog post from Shawn Farkas, SDE/T on the .NET CLR team.

[via Keith Brown]

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On the left, you see Lt. Uhura with her wireless Bluetooth headset (although I’m not sure of the made and model). On the right, you see me with mine (the Nextlink Bluespoon AX). I’ve waited all my life to be as cool as the folks on Star Trek and now it’s finally happened! I’m ready for my replicator, transporter, tricorder and Holodeck now…

Here. When Tim Ewald was still a Microsoft employee, he and the next-gen MSDN content management system team experimented with some fun techniques for XSLT to Object mapping. To illustrate this technique, Kim Wolk has built a little prototype that lets you associate an XPATH statement with a method on an object and that method will be invoked for the nodes that match the XPATH statement. Check it out.

Update: Steve Dunn has ported Kim’s sample from .NET 2.0 beta to .NET 1.1. Thanks, Steve!

Mike Marshall over at the 19th hole has been digging into Avalon to experiment with scalable graphics, golf, ClickOnce and 3rd party drawing tools. Check out these installments:

• My foray into the Avalon CTP
• The first hurdle: Creating Complex XAML Paths the Quick and Painless Way
• Step 2: Adding custom XAML attributes
• more to come…

I love that folks have started to document their learning processes on their blogs. There’s no better way for the WinFX folks to get a look at how folks are approaching their technology. Keep it up!

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To avoid intimidating people, I generally don’t wear the tight shirts in public, but Dax Pandhi captures my hidden muscles perfectly! : )

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