WinFS visual designer?

I know it's *way* too earlier to be asking this question/making this
suggestion, but anyway:

Do you think we'll see a day when designing custom types for WinFS can
be done visually, with a tool like the Typed DataSet Designer in Visual
Studio?

It would rock if I could design my entire WinFS "schema" (all the custom
types and their relationships) visually.

Anyway, just thought I'd put that out there. Keep up the good work!

Matt

ps. Is this newsgroup still relevant now that we have the "Search,
Organize and Visualize in Windows Vista" forum on MSDN? Should I be
posting there instead of (or as well as) here?

Hi Matt,

We're planning on delivering a set of developer tools with the SDK and a
standalone and VS-integrated "WinFS Type Designer" is one of those tools
we're looking into. We haven't yet finalized the exact timeframe this will
be released.

And yes, this is still the place to go for WinFS questions. :-)

Thanks for your input,
vijay

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Vijay R. Bangaru [MSFT]
vijayb@microsoft.com
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"mabster" <mabster@madprops.nospam.org> wrote in message
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>I know it's *way* too earlier to be asking this question/making this
>suggestion, but anyway:
>
> Do you think we'll see a day when designing custom types for WinFS can be
> done visually, with a tool like the Typed DataSet Designer in Visual
> Studio?
>
> It would rock if I could design my entire WinFS "schema" (all the custom
> types and their relationships) visually.
>
> Anyway, just thought I'd put that out there. Keep up the good work!
>
> Matt
>
> ps. Is this newsgroup still relevant now that we have the "Search,
> Organize and Visualize in Windows Vista" forum on MSDN? Should I be
> posting there instead of (or as well as) here?

Vijay Bangaru [MSFT] wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> We're planning on delivering a set of developer tools with the SDK and a
> standalone and VS-integrated "WinFS Type Designer" is one of those tools
> we're looking into. We haven't yet finalized the exact timeframe this will
> be released.
>
> And yes, this is still the place to go for WinFS questions. :-)
>
> Thanks for your input,
> vijay
>
Great to see someone posting in this group again, Vijay! Many thanks for
the reply!

I have *lots* of WinFS questions. I hope you stick around!