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Old 03-23-2006   #6 (permalink)
Jérôme Piquot
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Re: WinFS release date

Hello,

I hope it will not be like objectspaces !

A lot general information about what winfs is but very few informations on
how to use it.

Regards

"Shan Sinha [MSFT]" <shans@online.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de
news: eyBql2gTGHA.1728@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi Ben-
>
> Thanks for your note. The Vista announcement does not affect our delivery
> plans. Beta 2 continues to be planned for release later this year, as
> described in my previous note. RTM plans also remain unchanged.
>
> I hear your concern with lack of information on WinFS. I assure you that
> we will continue to remain as accessible as we can via our blogs,
> newsgroups and other community efforts. The idea guiding Beta 2 is that
> we intend for it to be the build that developers can begin to adopt for
> their applications, with a reasonable amount of assurance that they will
> be able develop applications that do not become obsolete. Between Beta 1
> and Beta2, the changes we are making to the platform will be somewhat more
> substantial than the changes we expect to see in builds coming beyond Beta
> 2.
>
> As we mentioned in PDC, one of the big updates we will be including in
> Beta 2 is the integration of the ADO.NET programming interface. We will
> also be updating the Item Data model. These two updates will cause some
> impact to applications built with Beta 1. I'm certain that this was
> expected. However, we believe that the updates we are making between Beta
> 1 and Beta 2 are the right ones and know that all those who adopt WinFS
> will benefit from them. We continue to be interested in hearing about
> your experiences with Beta 1 and about all the cool applications you are
> developing.
>
> Shan
>
> --
> Shan Sinha [MSFT]
> shans@online.microsoft.com
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
>
>
> "ben" <ben@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0CFE8A53-F665-4D02-B72B-C8E983FF1238@microsoft.com...
>> Have any of these dates changed since the latest vista announcement of
>> possibly not shipping till 2007?
>>
>> I'm also glad to see some more activity on the forums...the forums have
>> been
>> very dead since December, the blogs haven't been updated since 12/1/05,
>> and I
>> was beginning to worry everyone has lost interest and winfs wasn't being
>> supported anymore.
>>
>> We are trying to move forward with development, but without a strong
>> community and some idea when beta 2 would be coming out making forward
>> progress is very hard. We would hate to sink all of these development
>> resources into beta 1 to find beta 2 possibly changes so much. But with
>> no
>> roadmap, updates via forums or blogs I am just grasping at straws of what
>> may
>> or may not happen.
>>
>> Sorry this got off track, but it seems the best place to post. Thanks
>> again
>> and looking forward to a reply.
>>
>>
>> -ben
>>

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