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Kavita Kamani works at Microsoft. Everything here, though, is her personal opinion and is not read or approved by Microsoft before it is posted. No warranties or other guarantees will be offered as to the quality of the opinions or anything else offered here.

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WF 4 Migration Guidance now live on MSDN
Our team has posted a set of WF 4 Migration documents on MSDN. You'll find 4 papers initially - an overview document which introduces migration concerns and what to do for the WF3 developer. a best practices for WF3 development paper - how to design your Read More...

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VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 now available for public download
Earlier this week, we released Beta1 to MSDN subscribers. I am happy to share that the bits are now available for general public download! Go get them here . Read More...

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WF and WCF .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 samples
When you download VS2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1, you do not automatically get the samples. To get the SDK samples that the team put together, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5aca0622-d87d-4cc9-a22c-0d58205a56b4#t Read More...

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VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1!
I'm finally excited to share that .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 is being released this week! After having kept it low key and quiet for so long, and a limited distribution at the PDC last year, it is great that this week, Beta1 Read More...

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PDC, here we come!
The premier Microsoft conference, the PDC - Professional Developers Conference, is happening in the week of Octobert 26th in Los Angeles! Microsoft stars will join movie stars and present a bunch of upcoming technologies and paradigms to thousands of Read More...

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Oslo, the silence explained
Check out Doug's post and Don's post about Oslo. Finally, we're ready to talk about Oslo at the PDC. I've been involved in Oslo since late 2006, when we were still trying to define what it really is! I personally work on the .NET Framework 4.0 which is Read More...

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Doug has openings for emacs.net and new language compilers!
Doug is looking to hire, and I can tell you he's great to work for! Check it out if these sound exciting to you! http://douglaspurdy.com/2008/04/29/emacsnet/ http://douglaspurdy.com/2008/04/29/new-languages-compilers/ Read More...

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Code as data, it's pretty neat
So I have to admit I've been late in jumping to the "code as data" magic! I did play around with LINQ and the lambda syntax back last year with the May CTP, and found it really simple and powerful - reminding me of the days I worked with ML. I did not, Read More...

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Our team on Channel 9
Last week the Channel 9 team came over to our building. They initially wanted to do an interview with Doug , our Group Program Manager. But Doug loves to put a nice spin to things, so he called other folks from the team over to his office and it ended Read More...

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Business Rules Forum - so far
I'm spending this week in DC at the Business Rules Forum Conference. It's been interesting. First, before this I'd been to TechEd and PDC and those are obviously much bigger conferences - 10,000+ or 15,000+ people. This one, comparatively, is tiny - I Read More...

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Internet Explorer 7 for XP is now available for free download!
Internet Explorer 7 (English Version) for Windows XP is now available as a free download . Other languages will be available in the coming weeks. Internet Explorer 7 incorporates major advances like a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing enhancements, Read More...

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5 years!
Couple of days back, I completed 5 years at Microsoft. Today, at a team meeting, I was showered with confetti and then back in my office there were some more. It's amazing how quickly time has flown by. I started out as an SDET in the ASP.Net group working Read More...

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What I work on
I am the test lead for the transports and listener feature. I work with Steve Maine , Yasser Shouhoud , and Kenny Wolf all of who gave talks at the PDC this year. I was fortunate to get to attend the PDC this year and meet some of you. Do keep in touch, Read More...

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The frontline program
In the past year or so, there have been a lot of community initiatives at Microsoft. Kind of related is the frontline program that's part of the server and tools division under Eric Rudder. It is a 3 week program where participants are taken out of their Read More...

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March Sample Madness Month
A mail came out in early March called the “March Sample Madness“, which asked for volunteers to help out with testing and writing new samples for Whidbey. Kind of exciting huh? It was nice to see the product teams open up and ask for help Read More...

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