From the "What could possibly go wrong?" department: starting a WPF application (verified offenders are MsbuildG and VistaBridge from the Windows Vista SDK) crashes Vista. Or the graphics driver to be more precise. The result is nonetheless a perfectly reproducible BSOD on my IBM X31 laptop. The funny part? This ATI Mobility driver (6.14.10.6546) came from the Windows Vista Update Service and is MS HW Compat signed!

• Microsoft Pre-Release Software Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - June 2006 CTP (Note: on Vista, only build 5456 is supported!)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Community Technology Preview – Development Tools for .NET Framework 3.0
• Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Extensions for Windows® Workflow Foundation Release Candidate 2
• Hands-on Labs for Windows® Workflow Foundation Release Candidates
  

And if you still haven't had time to take a closer look at WinWF, check out Karsten's My Five Day Course For Hitting the WPF Curve/Cliff.

Half an hour ago, I completed my talk "Windows Workflow Foundation & ASP.NET 2.0". As promised, here is the list of links to sites / documents that I used to prepare this talk & accompanying samples.

• Coming improvements to ASP.NET hosting of Windows Workflow Foundation after WF Beta 2.2
• Cutting Edge, Windows Workflow Foundation Part 1, Part 2
• Examples of using Persistence and Tracking in ASP.NET
• Using WF to run a page-flow
• Of course, http://wf.netfx3.com/ (Webcasts et al)

Also, see my last post on ASP.NET PageFlow CTP. This was the last part on "future technologies".

Update A foto from my talk on Monday (debugging a workflow in ASP.NET):

Yesterday night, I watched a WebCast from TechEd Boston - "An Overview of ASP.NET and Windows Workflow Foundation". What this innocuous title hid was the fact that Kashif Alam (PM in the Developer Division) was presenting vNext features for ASP.NET workflow integration: Page flow (PageFlow) as well as UI flow (UIFlow), plus the accompanying extensibility model.

What do those two separate approaches provide? Well, you get MVC (model-view-controller) support for same-page (UIFlow) as well as cross-page (PageFlow) scenarios. Pretty neat was the included "Choosing the right solution" slide to get an idea what's in store:

As developers, we will get our hands on this later this year in the form of the "ASP.NET PageFlow CTP" (at least that's the current name), and it will be deployed with Orcas.

NetFx3 is the new community site that focuses on the four .Net Framework 3.0 technologies Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows CardSpace.