An early look.....

Its exciting, its challenging, its worth venturing into & most of all its fresh from the gardens.......you can literally feel the freshness when you have a look at the new framework from Microsoft Dot Net family. Its called .NET Framework 3.0, formerly WinFX.

We have seen MS-DOS, Win16, Win32 & now WinFX.

To introduce .Net Framework 3.0, its the managed API for the windows platform & it extends the .NET Framework 2.0.

.Net Framework 3.0 September CTP is out this week & this means it has reached a more matured level. As we all are aware of the fact that this framework is to be shipped with the most awaited Microsoft Windows Vista operating system that is due to be released late this year or early 2007.

The framework supports Windows Server 2003 & Windows XP SP2 environment & we can use our very own Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for building applications on this framework. Microsoft has been very modest this time in the sense that it has allowed us to use & test the upcoming technology that affect us very well in some ways or the other. They have followed the CTP (Community Technology Preview) cycle to release the different beta & Release Candidate (RC) versions of the Framework.

There are 4 main Technologies:

1. Windows CardSpace (formerly "InfoCard")
2. Windows Communication Foundation
3. Windows Presentation Foundation
4. Windows Workflow Foundation.

To know more about these technologies visit the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/

All the technologies are as exciting as we can imagine & all have their own space in terms of an application development. At present I'm working on Workflow Foundation (WF) & I'll share more of my learning experiences from the Technology.

There are lot more resources on different sites today for anyone who wants to dive into the ocean.

To link a few :

Workflow Foundation

1. http://searchvb.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid8_gci1193920,00.html
2. http://wf.netfx3.com/



Windows Presentation Foundation

1. http://searchvb.techtarget.com/general/0,295582,sid8_gci1189329,00.html

2. http://wpf.netfx3.com/


Windows Communication Foundation

1. http://searchvb.techtarget.com/general/0,295582,sid8_gci1191213,00.html

2. http://wcf.netfx3.com


Windows CardSpace

1. http://cardspace.netfx3.com/content/resources.aspx

2. http://cardspace.netfx3.com/content/introduction.aspx