Shahar Nechmad - Blog 2.0

Gadgets are mini data driven applications that can reside on the new Windows Vista SideBar and SideShow (the new Auxiliary display technology of Windows Vista).

If you dell exited about gadgets, check out the new Microsoft gadgets portal with code samples, ideas, blogs and more gadgets related information.

Finally, we can talk about it publicly – Windows Workflow Foundation (formally known WinOE) Beta 1 is out.

You can download the bits, hands on labs and get more information in:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/workflow/default.aspx

Want to understand the magnitude of the Vista platform?
Want to watch really cool demos of many Vista technologies?
I really, really (did I say really?) recommend watching the keynote from the PDC. It's a 3:30 web cast featuring great information to Windows Vista and Office 12 technologies. You will learn about key technologies as Atlas, InfoCards, WCF, WPF, WPF/E, Peer to Peer and much more.
If you have the time, try watch it all, but if you are really short on time I tried to mark a few important time markers for you:
Windows Vista Demo – 0:31:10
Office 12 Demo - 0:49:35
Atlas - 2:36:00
Linq Demo - 2:15:00
Indigo (WCF) Demo - 2:26
Avalon (WPF) - 1:51:30

http://www.microsoft.com/events/executives/billgates.mspx

Check out this post from Cyrus highlighting some new features in C# 3.

I got to admit - this looks really cool, why can't we get it now?? :)

Yesterday at the PDC, Microsoft gave the world a first glimpse on the new UI for Office 12.
The new UI will have quite a few changes, and you can preview them here:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/sep05/09-13OfficeUI.mspx

Also check out the Office 12 preview site for more information about the new UI and the new Office open XML formats:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx

Don't forget also to look at the Channel 9 interview with some of the Office 12 team members:
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=114720

Microsoft released a comprehensive guide for developing Windows Vista based applications that utilize better the power of the platform:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/top10/

Check out the new WinFX developer center on MSDN.
You will find there many links to documents, demos, samples and more.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/