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Microsoft (and by "Microsoft" I mean an employee who has posted to his blog three times in the last two years) announced today that it's taking Indigo on the road with "Windows Communication Foundation - Compact Edition." It's a subset of WCF that runs

Kirk Allen Evans has a cool demo of how WCF abstracts away some of the service implementation details from an application. Now all he needs to do is put it together into a sample app and attach it to his post...

According to eWeek , Longhorn isn't the only one to have a name change. Even thought Microsoft stepped away from the alphabet soup for Windows Vista , we're back to dealing with three-letter acronyms (TLAs) for Indigo and Avalon. (Side note: isn't it

The WinFX Runtime Beta 1 contains the Indigo communications system, as well as the Avalon UI system. This version is fully compatible with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2. This version is also the version that will be found

At VSLive! San Francisco, I had the chance to spend some time with Don Box , Product Manager for Indigo. It was a very interesting conversation, and Don is quite a character. Here's an excerpt: RWM: Where does this Indigo CTP stand on the Road to RTM

My third and final VSLive! Victim is the venerable Don Box . Once I'm over being in the presence of greatness, we'll be talking about the big Indigo announcement they'll be making on Tuesday. (Sidebar: I've talked to Waggoner Edstrom, and, while they

I am in Budapest today and I am just done with my Indigo talk (you can find the slides at http://codezone.info under “Talks”), having done it for the 6th time on this tour throughout Europe. After the events Den Haag, Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki

CNET News.com reported today from the “Developing Software for the Future Microsoft Platform conference “ (BORING name... leave it to the British to make me want to fall alseep. Hey Drew ... when is DSFMPBloggers.net going to be online?) ;

The evolution of in-memory concept of messages in the managed Microsoft Web Services stack(s) is quite interesting to look at. When you compare the concepts of System.Web.Services (ASMX), Microsoft.Web.Services (WSE) and System.MessageBus (Indigo M4)

I leaving shortly for Den Haag for the first installment of the Longhorn Developer Preview Tour throughout Europe as part of the Dutch Developer Days 2004 . We start tomorrow and I am quite excited since this is the first time I will speak about Indigo

Kevin Dente talks about Yasser Shohoud's article on Indigo applications with Whidbey. He's worried. Are you?

Here's what I want for the file system in Longhorn. I want the file search capabilities in Longhorn to be just as robust as web searching. Take, for example, Google. Wouldn't it be killer if you could Google your hard drive? (Google, are you paying attention

Joe Long, the Product Unit Manager for XML Enterprise Services at Microsoft, talks about the Indigo migration story in this recorded presentation on MSDN. If you weren't at Joe's PDC talk and think you don't have 37 minutes time for this, you can still

Between PDC and now, I was in Redmond on Monday and Tuesday at a meeting with the Indigo team. One of the topics discussed were the new transaction management capabilities that are part of Indigo (which, for Longhorn, includes a lightweight transaction

The typical PDC attendee is very special. PDC is not like TechEd where you get very practical information on today’s shipping products. PDC is about futures and it requires a lot of imagination of how applications could look and could work on the

Here’s my quick, two sentence definition of Indigo in order to give you an idea about the scope of this thing: Indigo is the successor technology and the consolidation of DCOM, COM+, Enterprise Services, Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX), WSE

Brad More is asking whether and why he should use Enterprise Services. Brad, if you go to the PDC, you can get the definitive, strategic answer on that question in this talk: “Indigo”: Connected Application Technology Roadmap Track: Web/Services Code

While you wait for the Indigo show to start, here is some stuff to look at and consider (again). The links at the bottom of this post point to five slide decks that I have been using for presentations throughout this year. All of them are, indeed, very