Since a Microsoft person has posted the link and it's now public, I'll let you know that both Whidbey and Yukon have slipped into the 2nd 1/2 of this year. 

With a work schedule that has me doing nights until 2 AM like last night and Saturdays, and a big release at work that we are trying to get out the door in this quarter, I am forced to cancel my 5 INETA dates that I have between now and July in Austin, Texas A&M, Springfield MO, Philly PA and Harrisburg. The simple fact is I over-committed...

So Phil Stanhope and I will be in Redmond for the Indigo SDR all next week. We are both staying here with the Indigo folks. Phil probably has a busy schedule of other meetings on campus as well but I'd like to get something together for a blogger dinner - Scoble, Crossroads Mall again? The only bad night is Tuesday when we will be going out...

We have a fantastic talk scheduled for the next meeting of Beantown.NET on April 7th. Knowing Jim as well as I do I am sure (and I have encouraged him to) dip into WDL First! as well. Please RSVP here. Abstract: Messaging is at the heart of SOA architectures and WSE 2.0 gives us a rich set of classes for implementing Message Exchange Patterns...

Great reading for us CLR Wonks...

It was a tough night to start with the WinFX SDK. First of all, the version of the .NET Framework 2 I have (and VS) were newer than the ones in the SDK. I finally got it installed but it broke Visual Studio Beta 2 such that I lost all project types except Managed C++ (at least Kate will be happy!). Then, when I tried to do things from the...

Wow! Check this out that I got from my MSFT guy, Thom: Wednesday, April 27 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Microsoft Waltham Register Now Special Key Note by David Chappell Indigo is the code name for Microsoft's new foundation for distributed computing and service-oriented applications. Join us for a day long dive into Indigo using the Community Technology...

Yay!! The Avalon and Indigo Community Technology Preview - March 05 is now available to MSDN subscribers (Tools, Platform Tools, WinFX SDK). And you can learn it the right way - TextPad and command line compilers.

The Indigo CTP documents are now live http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/indi go_con/html/503fae4b-014c-44df-a9c7-c76ec4ed4229.asp   Go read, get used to it, it's your future.

So great night up here at Kate's East of Toronto .NET UG where I presented C# 2.0 Generics. I got to hang out with my pal Kate all afternoon. The presentation was a home run. I got to finally meet Eli Robillard (great guy!) who came two hours from Toronto just to see me and actually said I explained the internals of how Generics were...

My slide deck for my first Code Camp III session, eXtreme.NET Part 1 is up on my Presentations site.

What a span today. Jonathan and I headed down to Waltham at 7:45 AM in a bug snow storm (it's still snowing). I went from giving two eXtreme.NET sessiosn to 150 people to dishing out cake from 4-6 for 13 rabid 7 year olds in one day! Wow! So first session was a packed auditorium standing room only and I talked about XP from the perspective of...

Our son Jonathan turns 7 today! We all did Happy Birthday at 5:44 AM Eastern, the time of his birth and he will get the big birthday party tomorrow. It's amazing; the thing he is most excited about is not the bowling alley big party with 11 friends or gifts but my small gift to him; going to Microsoft tomorrow and coming to my two talks,...

Hey Enterprise Library team: I get the whole goodness of EL and I am trying to switch to using it but every time I use it's Configuration Utility, it crashes any time I try to open an existing configuration file or save a new one with “The path is not a legal form.” This is on XP SP2. What gives? Is anyone else...

As Rob mentions, issue of MSDN Magazine (April 2005) has an extensive article (6+ pages & good graphics) by Chris Menegay on Visual Studio 2005 Team System based on the December CTP release (Team Up! Get All Your Devs in a Row with Visual Studio 2005 Team System). I just finished reading the dead tree version and it's quite...