Ski's Emesis

I worked on a little toy project on the side for which I needed a XAML map of the United States; however, I could not find such a thing myself. After looking through a few options I ruled out making a SVG to XAML converter, as I suck too much with XSLT. So instead, I traced a map of the united states from an image state by state. End result is attached for your consumption.

 I will continue working with this XAML by making it interactive with some JavaScript thanks to WPF/E (Silverlight).

On the first day of TechEd 2006 I did a chalk talk on this subject. It being the first day and the first talk of the day there wasn't a huge response. The reason I did this chalk talk is because there were numerous teams within Microsoft as well as external customers who learned about the WCF process and were interested in further details. I also attached the slide-deck for this presentation. I hope it renders correctly as I did create it in Beta 2 and converted it to 2003.

Abstract
This talk will describe how the Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo) team applied the Trustworthy Computing Security Development Lifecycle to the WCF infrastructure. I’ll elaborate on the processes we followed for design reviews, threat modeling, and security testing. I’ll also describe how these processes (and lessons) can apply to securing your WCF applications.

TechEd Chalk Talk Schedule
http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2006/06/02/611213.aspx

While attending the WCF TechEd booth the most frequent asked question we get is "What is WinFx". This question is asked because our big sign has that as the title and each sub-group has a sub title, in my case "Windows Communication Foundation."

I started writing the answer in my own words but I believe that the .NET Framework 3.0 website can answer that question better. http://www.netfx3.com/content/WhatIsNetFx3.aspx

In addition to the information on that website I can only add this tiny piece of information: Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation formerly were codenamed Indigo and Avalon respectfully. Numerous developers still know those technologies by their old codename.

The .NET Framework 3.0 (netfx3) is currently in Beta2 with a go-live license. NetFx3 is planned to be released with Vista AND for Windows XP as well as 2003.