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The Windows Workflow Foundation team held a usability lab for their technology.   This was an API usability lab where the lab participant was responsible for building a workflow application and providing feedback on the APIs.   In the first part of this video, James Conard the…

James Conard takes us on a tour of the Windows Workflow Foundation Offices. Something a bit different for Thanksgiving. Here we have a tour of the Workflow Foundation team. Don't know what Windows Workflow Foundation is? Check out their blog. Out of all the technologies we've seen, it could have…

Mark Boulter, PM and technical lead, and Brian Pepin, development lead, talk to us about Cider, a future version of the visual designer that'll ship in Orcas, future version of Visual Studio.They demo it too!

Sidebar lives!But it's even better, here Sean Alexander, David Streams, and special guest Sanaz Ahari of the Start.com team, demonstrate the new sidebar and gadgets that come in Windows Vista. Plus, we cover the three different kinds of gadgets and show how to build your own.You can learn…

This eLearning video features Kyle Groves and Dave Goulet from LogicBay demoing a prototype they built for 3M. The very cool thing about the app is the browser integration: it is probably the most sophisticated in browser Avalon app created to date. It also features Arik Cohen from the Avalon (er,…

We have a short conversation with Shawn Van Ness of the Tablet PC team and he talks with us about using ink with the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon).

This is one of the coolest applications we've seen at the PDC. Here's a video of the North Face demo that was shown off during Jim Allchin's keynote at the PDC. This demo rocks and it was all done in Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon).

Microsoft, today, at the PDC, announced Microsoft Expression, which is a suite of three applications to help you build Web sites and new kinds of Windows applications.Here we meet the Expression Interactive Designer team last week as they were having a late-night pizza dinner (code-named…

Chris Jones, corporate vice president on the Windows team, sits down with Jeremy Mazner to talk about what developers need to do to make a great Windows Vista application. Video length: 45:02.

Kam Vedbrat is a lead program manager on the AERO team which redesigned the User Interface of Windows Vista (the next version of Windows). We spend half an hour looking at the user interface.