WinFX Review
Today we had a checkpoint review of the APIs that our team is working on for WinFX (the Longhorn API). The review is an opportunity for people from around the company to look at our API design and comment on usability, security, performance, and generally anything else that needs to be looked at for an API that has aspirations to become the replacement for Win32 for the next decade. It’s our third such review, but probably the last one before we ship Whidbey. We had good attendance from the various API design owners around the company, and it went fairly well. Lots of good discussion, especially around usability where we still have lots of room for improvement. I couldn’t help but notice that more than half of the people who werein the room have blogs. I suppose it’s been this way since the DOTNET mailing lists were opened on Developmentor, but it’s still impressive to me to seehow involved and publicly accessible the whole frameworks team is on an ongoing basis.