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Since LHBlogs had been down I posted a problem I faced with the sidebar getting corrupted to my other blog here.

Is anyone else able to simulate this or does this happen only for me?

I have atlast been able to get my DSL modem to work with Longhorn...:-)

It suprisingly uses the Dialup protocol and that stumped me for quite sometime as I was creating a new network connection as type Broadband and nothing worked....

Steven VanRoekel, director of WS in MS says in this article in adtmag that Indigo will increase productivity by decreasing the number of lines of code a developer has to write to use WS.

The numbers interest me. For writing a secure and reliable example WS

With .NET Framework - 60K LOC

With WSE - 12K-13K LOC

With Indigo - 1 LOC

Here is an simulation of the Longhorn Glass interface that works with IE!!!

And here is Sjoerd Visscher's blog post on the subject.

Having missed PDC and being so far away from action, it was only on Friday that I had my first look at Longhorn at the India MVPs day.(More info on this at my personal blog)

Deepak from MS India demonstrated the PDC build on his laptop of 15 mins. First impression, it is slow, but cool. The side bar looks impressive the first time but then loses its charm after a while. I suppose once you have used it for some time you forget it being cool, but then it becomes indespensible like the taskbar....:-)

Waiting for some way to get my hands on the PDC builds, but seems like it is going to take sometime...:-(

Want to read Undocumented Longhorn? Check out this post by Ian at Magician in training.

Scott talks about the Automated testing framework being a side effect of the accessibility framework that they built into Avalon.

Avalon, Automation and Accessibility

Scott Hanselman has an article in .NET Insider Journal on Avalon and Longhorn.

Avalon: Yes, the Picture's Changing

MSDN TV has Chris Anderson and Don Box on Lap Around Longhorn

MSDN TV also now has an RSS Feed!! MS seems to be on a RSS spree...:-)

If you have trouble getting Longhorn to work, check out Longhorn Tweak Guide.

(from Sam Getile's Blog)

Scott writes about the Avalon Testing Framework, which allows you to automate UI Testing.

This is real exiciting as I have fought a lot with automated UI Testing...:-) The record and replay of mouse clicks have always been one of the most unreliable things and even with some good software, it is always not fully automatic. Someone has to keep an eye on it to make sure that it does not get stuck somewhere due to some other application or a messagebox that poped up from another program.

Indigo FAQ is available at MSDN...