I'm really happy to announce that our own forum, dedicated to transactions in Windows and .Net is now live at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=388&SiteID=1 The RSS feed for the forum is http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=388&Mode=0&SiteID=1 I hope...

Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo) has its own page now at http://windowscommunication.net/

Indigo has its own forum now: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=118 The forum is one more way in which you can interact with the Indigo team and its community. See you there!

Many people ask - do I need transactions? Why do I need them? When to use them? The answer is simple: use them all the time, unless you have a very good reason not to (for instance, don't use atomic transactions for "long running activities" between businesses). The default should always be yes. You...

If you are at PDC this year, don't forget to attend the sessions related to transactions. An easy way to find these sessions is to go to http://commnet1.microsoftpdc.com/content/sessions.aspx and search by Keyword="transaction". I especially recommend the session called "FUN320 - Windows Vista...

The WS specifications related to Transactions (WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity) have just been updated. They are available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/webservices/understanding/specs/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/wsatspecindex.asp .

Some transaction related sample code using Indigo is shown at http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/indigo_samples/html/1a9842a3-e84d-427c-b6ac-6999cbbc2612.asp Assuming that you already have the latest released WinFX build installed ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId...

"Indigo" and "Avalon" Beta1 RC are available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B789BC8D-4F25-4823-B6AA-C5EDF432D0C1&displaylang=en . More info can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn and http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices .

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My team is "live" on TV again. Steve is giving a quick "how-to" write an Indigo service and client on MSDN TV: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20050407INDIGOSS/manifest.xml

March 2005 Indigo CTP is now available to download for MSDN Subscribers at http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/default.aspx This should also be available to the broad public soon. For more information, go to the Longhorn developer center ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/ ) and the Indigo...

This is about an old article posted in MSDN Magazine but I want to make sure you didn't miss the paragraphs about System.Transactions that Don put together in " A Guide to Developing and Running Connected Systems with Indigo ": “Indigo also provides significant support for transactional programming....

Richard Turner takes us on the road to Indigo: http://blogs.msdn.com/richturner666/ . You'll find there Q&A about Indigo, guidelines on writing your apps today to be prepared for an easy migration to Indigo tomorrow and a lot more.

Bob Muglia presents the Windows Server roadmap: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/muglia_winserver.asp . He also mentions Indigo twice.

These are the newsgroups you should use when looking for answers related to COM+, Enterprise Services or MSDTC: microsoft.public.platformsdk.complus_mts and microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.component_services . For Indigo answers, use microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.indigo . [Update March...

As part of Microsoft Longhorn Developer Preview , Clemens Vasters talks more about Indigo @ http://codezone.info/en/downloads/indigo.ppt One of the main services Indigo will provide is transactions. See the slides for more info.

If you are writing applications using ASMX, Remoting or Enterprise Services today, the impact of Indigo ’s arrival can be immediate if you want to make it so. If you code your applications today following the guidelines explained by Joe Long @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/understanding/pillars...