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I was browsing the programming shelves in Barnes & Noble when I came across an official MS Press book about WinFX. I can't believe MS is already publishng books about an OS we're not suppose to see for at least 2yrs (Winter 2005). It wasn't a very big book (around 160 pages) but it did have lots of code and screenshots of the code in action. After checking out the book on Amazon a review did mention this book was gives out for free at the PDC conference a couple months back and that the bulk of the book is available on MS's site (with no screenshots) at http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/understanding/books/rector/default.aspx.

If you really want to own the book or check it out, here's the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735620857

PS: In case you didn't know, WinFX is the visual interface for presenting applications. It's really neat as it's all XML that resembles HTML to allow you to draw up a Windows Form application with this new XML markup. If you know HTML well, you'll easily adopt and love WinFX.

posted on Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:45 PM by travisowens

# @ Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:00 AM

Take a look at XUL too, I've been told their pretty similar. Are we to expect a new version of Visual Studio for Longhorn? Is one in the works?

theHaig

# @ Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:35 PM

Yes, there will be a Visual Studio 2004 coming out late this year and it will have the bulk of the tools for Lognhorn developing. But like all releases, we wont see highly poloshied Longhorn dev tools until the release after the initial release, so expect to wait until late 2005 or early 2006 to see really slick Longhorn support.

travisowens

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