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• 'Indigo' Goes Mobile With WCF-CE

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Nov 21 2006, 05:13 PM

  Filed under: WCF, WinFX, .NET 3.0

  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
  

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• Leveraging WCF from VB.NET

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Aug 29 2006, 09:23 AM

  Filed under: WCF, VB.NET

  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...
  

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• Fun with Acronyms

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jul 27 2005, 12:17 PM

  Filed under: WCF, WPF

  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
  

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• WinFX Runtime Beta 1

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jul 27 2005, 11:11 AM

  Filed under: WCF, WPF, WinFX

  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
  

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• VSLive! Interview: Don Box Talks Indigo

  Posted by Anonymous to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Mar 30 2005, 10:28 PM

  Filed under: WCF, Speaking Engagements

  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
  

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• Interview #3: Don Box on Indigo

  Posted by rmclaws2k to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Feb 03 2005, 09:32 PM

  Filed under: WCF, Speaking Engagements

  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
  

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• COM God Bids Farewell To Beloved Friend

  Posted by rmclaws2k to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jan 27 2004, 03:32 PM

  Filed under: WCF

  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?) ;
  

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• Indigo Implications

  Posted by rmclaws2k to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Jan 20 2004, 09:00 PM

  Filed under: WCF

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

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• Intelligent Searching in Longhorn

  Posted by rmclaws2k to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Dec 24 2003, 01:50 PM

  Filed under: WCF

  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
  

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