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All Things Indigo - Indigo Resources I've Found

The big buzz coming is the March CTP Release of Indigo, one of the three two :) pillars of Longhorn. I'm going to be gathering some posts in this entry from around the blogosphere in hopes of relieving my brain of some more details. In addition I won't have to save these links on my machine which gets repaved every three months or so.

News Flash

The Beta1 RC of Avalon & Indigo has been released to the wild, thanks to Drew Marsh for the link, you can get the direct download here Supposedly it will be available via this page.*

Blog Entries

• Clemens Vasters creates a simple Hello World Indigo Application.
• Bruce Williams takes Clemens' Hello World sample and converts it into a Queued Service.
• Shy Cohen demonstrates Indigo's Duplex Channel and use of the config to set endpoint bindings.
• And of course Don Box talks about Service Contracts in Indigo.
• Clemens Vasters spends the weekend with Indigo (Part 1,Part 2,Part 3)

Indigo Blogs

• Don Box's Spoutlet (rss)
• Shy Cohen's Indigo Category (rss)
• Omri Gazitt's Web Services Category (rss)
• Kirill Gavrylyuk (rss)*
• Floren Lazar's Indigo Category (rss)
• Steve Maine's Indigo Category (rss)
• Andy Milligan's Distilled - Thinking In Indigo(rss)
• Doug Purdy's Blog (rss)
• Yasser Shohoud's Technical Category (rss)
• Mujtaba Syed (rss)
• That Indigo Book(rss)
• Richard Turner's On the road to Indigo(rss)
• Clemens Vasters Indigo Category(rss)
• Christian Weyer's Indigo Category(rss)
• Kenny Wolf's Indigo Category (rss)*
• Bruce Williams (atom)

Resources

• Channel 9 Indigo Wiki
• March 2005 CTP Release Notes
• Indigo Doucmentation for March 2005 CTP
• Indigo Portal in the Longhorn SDK
• Indigo Section in the Longhorn Developer Center
• Distributed Applications Using "Indigo" Services in the Longhorn Development Center
• Indigo MSDN Newsgroup

Articles

• Introducing Indigo: An Early Look by David Chappell (Feb. 2005)
• Inside "Indigo", Chapter 2: The Journey of a Message by Jason Clark (Feb. 2004)
• Codename Indigo: A Guide to Developing and Running Connected Systems with Indigo by Don Box (Jan. 2004)
• Creating Indigo Applications with the PDC Release of Visual Studio.Net by Yasser Shohoud (Jan. 2004)

Samples

• Indigo Transactional Web Services using Microsoft WinFX CTP March 2005* (April 2005) - Implementing WS-AtomicTransaction in Indigo. by Jamesqding

Podcasts

• .NET Rocks Mood Indigo* (April 2005) - Carl talks with Richard Turner and Anand Rajagapolan, Program Managers on the Indigo team to really dig into the Indigo experience.

Videos

• BizTalk Server and Indigo* (May 2005) MSDN TV - Scott Woodgate shows a glimpse into the future with a working prototype demo illustrating BizTalk Server and "Indigo" working together.
• Indigo Security in a Nutshell* (April 2005)  MSDN TV - Doug Purdy provides an overview of the Indigo Security Programming Model.
• Introduction to Indigo* (April 2005) MSDN TV - Steve Swartz provides a brief conceptual overview of Indigo, walks through some code, and introduces you to his jackalope.
• Via Gene Webs blog entry:Indigo Webcasts including a) Programming Indigo 1, b) Programming Indigo 2, c) Indigo Security, d) Reliability, e) Tooling for Distributed Applications, f) The IT Pro Experience, g) Migration, Upgrade, Integration, Interop, h) Basics, i) Indigo Internals 1, j) Indigo Internals 2.
• Don Box - Final Part of Indigo Team Tour via Channel 9 (Sep. 2004)
• Don Box - Tour of Indigo Team via Channel 9 (Aug. 2004)
• Service Orientation and Today's Technologies via MSDN TV (Aug. 2004)
• The Road to Indigo Technology Roadmap

Conference Sessions

• Indigo Day at VSLive (Feb. 2005)
  Summary via The Server Side
  Eric Rudder showed of Indigo in the VSLive! Keynote
  Summary of  Eric Rudder's Keynote and Don Box's & Steven Schwartz's session on Programming Indigo via Mujtaba Syed
  The Videos are now online here

*Updated Entries. If you know of an Indigo resource or blog (preferably with an Indigo category, please send me a note. Also a comment was made that anything written prior to Feb 05 should be disregarded since these papers will have been written about a very, very different Indigo and may end up being more confusing than useful!