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One of the areas on the main floor is called “Cabana Sessions.”  It's a bunch of tables, with one for almost each of all of the current and upcoming server, developer, and platform products.  The tables are manned by a total of 500 Microsoft Team experts--these are the people who've worked on these products, or support them.  You can walk up to any of them, and ask questions.  Many of them have their laptops setup so you can run some code, or see how something works.

So--If you have a question you've always wanted to ask someone at microsoft, post a reply to this blog post.  I'll try to find the right person, and ask them your question.  This is for developer tools, servers, and OSs only--sorry, no Xbox 360 experts.

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posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:03 PM

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# re: You've got questions, they have answers 6/7/2005 4:35 PM Big B
Why don't C++ combo boxes have multiple columns built in, similar to the VB
combo box.


# re: You've got questions, they have answers 6/7/2005 4:41 PM Politz
Of particular interest to me is BOF013 Avalon/XAML vs. WinForms Track Cabana 04

Maybe you could ask around some questions about Avalon and see what they have to say about it.

Too bad there aren't any xbox 360 guys there, then you could ask them why Jay Allard is such a tool and who is responsible for the embarrassing MTV special, and why special celebrities such as Elijah Wood and Teh Killers get to play Perfect Dark 0, yet industry people at E3 did not. Is it because the industry people would be smart enough to realize it sucks and will in no way b.... Ok I'm just rambling now. Just ask about Avalon and if it will have any connections to DirectX.

# re: You've got questions, they have answers 6/7/2005 5:05 PM Tim
Brian,

Combo boxes don't have multiple columns in C++ because they wanted to leave room for innovation by thirdpart tool developers. (I'm making that up).

Chris,

I'll ask about Avalon & DirectX. Anything in particular? Do you want to know if Avalon is implemented w/ DirectX? Or if DirectX surfaces and API is directly accessible in Avalon? BTW, you can run Avalon today on WinXP--there's a beta somewhere.

Re: Xbox 360.....uh, I could randomly vent that at the next dude in a msft shirt that I see, if that helps?

-- Tim

# re: You've got questions, they have answers 6/7/2005 5:18 PM Kevin Grubbs
What about that deal with third party components in VS.NET disappearing or whatever. I haven't used in a while so I can't remember how to describe it exactly. You know what I am talking about?

# re: You've got questions, they have answers 6/7/2005 5:32 PM Politz
Yea remember all those problems with .NET bar disappearing, or any control disapearing, but it all seemed in relation to .NET bar.

So what I'm interested in about Avalon is we all know that DirectX has a particularly nasty interface due to all that HAL stuff. I have heard in places that Avalon is actually DX10. In other places I have heard that Avalon is merely a wrapper on top of DX10. Do you know where there is an Avalon API that one could look at? Something that codes like WinForms, but has the power of DirectX would be like the coolest thing.

# re: You've got questions, they have answers 6/7/2005 9:00 PM Adam
When are they going to provide practical low-level device access in .Net? For instance, try accessing the sound-card directly in C#. Are they going to only focus on RAD developers and ignore people who need to write serious apps with low-level hardware needs?

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