″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 .NETCLR team.
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:
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!
Shawn Burke from the Windows Forms team is trying to make the Windows Forms source available for stepping into during a debugging session. Wahoo! He's pretty sure he can give it to us w/o the comments. That's a step up from viewing it via Reflector, imo. Leaving in comments requires all kinds of reviewing work that he may not be able to get to. What do you think? Let Shawn know.
Kevin Moore, a PM on the Avalon team, is in London for one night (Feb. 28) and wants to gather the Avalon enthused together for dinner. Microsoftie's have expense accounts for this kind of thing, so if you can stand to listen to Avalon talk over shepherd's pie, you should let him know!
