Rob was kind enough to solicit feedback on “Avalon“ in WinFX. It just so happens that my wife and I were taking a look at the new Avalon application templates in VS.NET 2005. She is a graphic artist and is familiar with HTML and I was telling her about XAML, so we wrote the following:

<Window x:Class="VideoTest.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/xaml" xmlns:x="Definition" Text="VideoTest">
    <Canvas>
        <Video ID="v1" Source="C:\Documents and Settings\Sean\My Documents\Visual Studio\Projects\VideoTest\VideoTest\pinkey.wmv"/>
    Canvas>
Window>

We kept getting an exception, so I tried Source="http:///pinkey.wmv" and that also threw an exception. I also dragged and dropped the pinkey.wmv file into the project and used Source="pinkey.wmv" and again...we got an exception.

So my wife asks, "Hey why did that happen?" So I said, "Well, see it's because...hmmm...I dunno." What gives, how do I get the "Pinky the cat" video to play? Thoughts? :-)

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Back in September, I posted a blog entry referring to a great article written by Werner Vogels called Web Services Are Not Distributed Objects. I try to keep Web Services as a simple messaging mechanism, but that could be oversimplifying depending on the problem(s) that you are trying to solve. This is going to be a huge issue in the industry and here are a few links worth reading along with the aforementioned...

Tim Ewald has the following blog posts (plus an MSDN article):

• ASP.NET Web Services or .NET Remoting: How to Choose
• SO and OO: on the edge of madness
• The role of objects in service-oriented systems
• More on Web services and distributed objects

Here are a few others:

• Web Services and Distributed Objects: Competing or Complementary?
• Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation
• Microsoft Architect Touts SOAs
   

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