Love markup but can’t wait for Longhorn/Avalon/XAML? Check out Joe Stegman’s WFML (Windows Forms Markup Language).

[via Chris Anderson]

Jeremy Mazner has posted another in his series of compelling WinFS scenarios. Personally, this is one of my favorite, simply because it talks about the massive developer benefits of having an object-based stored built into the OS.

The slides from the European tour showing off Longhorn are available on codezone.info. The usual topics are covered, i.e. Avalon, Indigo, WinFS, as well as an overview of Whidbey and a keynote from David Chappell on the foundations of creativity. I wish the vocals were up, too, but the slides are informative all by themselves.

Rich Turner, PM on the Indigo team, answers lots of FAQs related to Indigo and how to prepare for it today, including:

• How do I prepare my code and systems to ease my adoption of Indigo?
• Which current technologies should I use, where and when?
• How will Indigo interoperate with systems based on existing platform and technologies?
• How much of my code will I have to change to migrate my code to Indigo?
• How will Services Perform & Scale?

Thanks for pointing me at Rich, folks. I’m enjoying his Indigo blog a great deal!

Rich Turner, a PM on the Microsoft Indigo team, has a pretty firm answer to the question of whether .NET remoting is dead: no.

My call for Indigo bloggers was very successful (although most recommendations came via email), providing several interesting Indigo web blog possibilities. On the WinFS side, I only know about Mike Deem, and he seems to have gone into hybernation. Does anyone have anyone else that they'd like to recommend as a WinFS blogger? Thanks!

One of the features that Jason built into his ImageStack application was animated zooming using timelines, which he describes in some detail here.

Jason Nadal has posted a sample application for viewing a stack of images in Longhorn (with code).