25 March 2003

InfoPath I have not seen much of InfoPath (which sounds too much like XPath for me) yet but this Blog entry by Scott Hansleman blew me away. The ability to create a form from a WSDL document and then link it to the connecting web service via the form sounds very cool indeed (in this case a form to update a Blog). I have seen in a comment that the ability to create a .NET component from the form would be useful, I have to agree and it would make an already cool app just rock! 6:07:10 PM    comment []

Flash MX and Visual Basic - via Mike Chambers Demo app and useful info on using VB 6.0 and Flash MX. 6:02:53 PM    comment []

Future Directions for C# Interesting FAQ session with the dev leads on the C# team. While covering info on the next version of C# (the version due with the .NET Framework 2.0) it also talks about future directions for IE and Windows (Longhorn). In particular.  Windows Forms support in IE   You’ll be able to use markup and C# to do rich client apps in a web-like manner. I guess this means IE will be CLR hosted (at long last no more OCX....hooray!) and that as promised Web Forms and Windows Forms will be merged. A few other interesting points was that Inline IL is unlikely to happen, Refactoring and other IP methods are of interest to the group however they are taking the "wait and see" approach to AOP. Also of interest is that the group has proposed to the ECMA on including Generics, Interators and Partial Types and support for these will make it into the CLR (which will make life easier for compiler writers). 6:00:51 PM    comment []