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  • Microsoft Releases WinFS Beta 1

    For everyone that thought WinFS was dead... ha! The WinFS team has been hard at work refining the WinFS system, and is pleased to announce WinFS Beta 1 is available for download for MSDN Subscribers. It's all the way at the bottom of the "Tools, SDKs, and DDKs" section. WinFS Beta 1 runs on Windows XP...
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  • Google Desktop

    Wow, this is amazing. For those of you who were excited about WinFS and even if you weren't, you need to check out the Google Desktop . From the CNet article : To use Google's desktop application, people download the file, which is a thin 400K, or about half the size of its toolbar application. (Users...
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  • WinFS Scaleback Speculation

    PLEASE NOTE: Before I go into my post, I need to state explicitly that what follows is pure speculation. It is not based on any discussions with Microsoft employees, NDA material, or the like. I am not a Microsoft employee, and I cannot verify in any way that the information contained within is accurate...
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  • OneNote and WinFS

    I like DonXML's idea on OneNote and WinFS . Essentially, he is talking about how OneNote is a great program to take notes but its difficult to then get those notes in a usable format. If developers did have a way to pull the data out and integrate with WinFS, WinFS items could be linked to sets of notes...
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  • orkut friend groups

    I was messing around some more in Orkut and I found something which I consider valuable and one more thing that makes me want to maintain an address book there. You can organize your friends into groups and friends may be members of more than one group. A concept that is a big part of WinFS. An item...
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  • WinFS and System Maintenance

    My post today on microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.general I hope Microsoft also does some serious long term testing of Longhorn. I'd hate to think that everyones WinFS could grind to a halt after adding 6 months worth of data and no one could predict because they were in such a hurry to release...
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  • Longhorn- The missing pieces

    Apologies for not posting in a long time. I guess you'd all though this was another blogging casualty. But I'm back. I'm still working mainly with VB6 but I'm taking every oppotunity to cram .Net from books articles and videos online. I really like the way that WinFX will create a level playing field...
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  • Ocel: Longhorn RSS Aggregator

    So here it is. [ Download Here ] I wanted to test drive some of what WinFS has to offer so I thought what better thing to store than RSS Feeds. Of course I needed a GUI to manage all of those feeds for me. One of the neat things is that the body of the selected RSS Item is hosted in a TextPanel sitting...
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  • WinFS does Customer Relations Management Article

    In this sample, we will delve into the topic of WinFS. We will be covering everything from Relationships, Contexts, Folders, and various schema objects such as Person, Document, Author, and Event. Hopefully, this article will persuade the doubters who still remain that WinFS is here to stay. The Article...
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