Do you have a series of simple yet compelling ClickOnce applications in you that you can build and deliver to show off the benefits of Windows Forms 2.0 smart clients? Do you have a track record of delivering top-quality code on time and on budget?
If so, send me a proposal, listing a series of ClickOnce applications, your schedule and your price. You don’t have to be a 3Leaf, a PluralSight, a Relevance LLC, a Wintellect or a DevelopMentor (although I’d be happy to hear from those guys, too!). You just have to have a song in your heart, a snap in your step and a story to tell.
This combination enables folks without an MSDN Subscription to try out Avalon with Visual Studio 2005 without an MSDN Subscription.
Don’t be shy about giving feedback on these bits now that you’ve got ’em. The Avalon team is standing by in the Avalon newsgroup to answer your questions and take your suggestions.
Deepak Kapoor has launched a new WinFX community: deepwinfx.com. It's pretty bare right now, but hopefully it'll flesh out nicely. I'll be keeping an eye on it. Good luck, Deepak!
Here. "Microsoft is working on an update to its Information Bridge Framework (IBF) for this spring, a company spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. What had been referred to as IBF 1.5 by partner sources will actually be a service pack for the integration software. The update, to be delivered via MSDN, will add support for two new host applications, InfoPath and Internet Explorer. The current IBF supports Word 2003, Excel 2003, and Outlook 2003."
If you’ve got .NET 2.0 and the Nov. ’04 Avalon CTP, click here to play my scaling, vector-based, WinFX version of Solitaire. Features include lovely scaling of the cards as the window resizes, real-time drag ‘n’ drop of the cards, sol-like card stacking, ClickOnce deployment and the source. The performance isn’t yet what I’d like it to be because I’m loading the card back resource 52 times, but it’ll get there. Enjoy!
