Kenny Lim has posted the source to his WinHEC-compliant Avalon NNTP Reader (screenshot here). It's stateless right now, but WinFS seems a natural for keeping this kind of state as soon as we're allowed to extend the WinFS type system. Thanks, Kenny!

Sam Druker, Development Team Lead on the WinFS team, has a series of videos on Channel9 talking about a variety of WinFS topics:

• Where do the attributes/metadata come from that WinFS exposes to the shell and to custom applications?
• How pictures could be tagged based on calendar appointments and picture timestamps.
• What kind of search experience will WinFS enable in Longhorn?
• How an existing application, like Outlook Express, could be updated to take advantage of WinFS.
• And most importantly: how developers should prepare today for WinFS tomorrow.

The right thing happens, imo, but I'm hardly unbiased. : )

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After Business Week reported the death of WinFS, some folks have been justifiably worried that such a cool feature would, in fact, be missing when their copy of Longhorn showed up at their door. Today Toby Whitney, the Group Program Manager of the WinFS team, stepped in to report that WinFS was alive and well:

“WinFS is in good shape and hasn’t been cut from Longhorn.  We’re going to ship it :-).  What we need is your feedback on whether we’re building the right thing.  It’d be great if you went to MSDN and downloaded the newest bits.  They’re much more stable and represent a big evolution of what we’re doing.”

To provide the feedback that Toby is looking for, download Longhorn and the Longhorn SDK from the MSDN Subscriber Downloads section and post your feedback on the WinFS newsgroup, where Toby posted his response and the WinFS team is hangs out waiting for you.

The WinHEC build of Longhorn just seems so much more stable than the PDC build of Longhorn, that I find it a pleasure to use. If you’re an MSDN subscriber into Longhorn, I recommend it.

Nathan Dunlap takes us on a tour of his favorite new things in Avalon in the WinHEC build of Longhorn (4074), including a sneak peak an updated GelButton, his love affair with the  new Grid panel, his lust for real 3D and more. You gotta love that enthusiasm. : )

I had no idea that there were so many declarative platforms for UI. The XUL Grand Coding Challenge 2004 shows off 10 and the XAML app ain't even posted yet (but it’s coming).

Dave Massy has amassed some information about the new WinHEC Longhorn build (4074) and it's available on the Longhorn Developer Center in the "Conference In A Box." The idea is to bundle the set of conference-related materials together into a kind of "virtual event" so that even folks that didn't get to go to WinHEC can get the Longhorn information that was provided there. The plan is to gather this same kind of material for future Longhorn community technology preview drops.