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I finally did it. As promised yesterday, I shaved my head completely down to skin. I'm sure Raymond will be proud.
IIS 7.0/Longhorn Server
- ScottGu announces that IIS 7.0 Ships with a Go-Live License. His post lists the numerous features that IIS 7 has in the recent Beta 3 of longhorn Server over those in Vista. I have been using Longhorn Server quite a bit the last 6 months and it is quite compelling
Orcas/Workflow/WCF
- Jason announces that the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 Framework available on MSDN for immediate download here.
- Mike Taulty starts to detail the changes in Workflow for Orcas Beta 1 and specifically WorkflowServiceHost, the centerpiece of WF/WCF Integration
- He also talks about Orcas Workflow: wsHttpContextBinding and netTcpContextBinding
- Meanwhile, Christian has a must-read post: When you think things are not possible: WCF duplex callbacks through NATs and firewalls - safe and secure
- The Orcas Beta 1 Samples for WCF and WF are here
Entity Framework/Orcas
I'm rocking out to Street Life by Roxy Music from the album Stranded (Remastered)