Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 - the idea

Today, I ended up on this interesting article, not suprisingly on Somasegar's web log (just for the record, he is the corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft). It shows what Microsoft plans are for the next generation of .NET platform. Put shortly, it will combine all of the existing .NET 2.0 functionality, but this time developers will have at their fingertips technologies like WPF, WF and WCF. According to this article, .NET 3.0 will be incorporated into Windows Vista, but for Windows XP and 2003 family - like an extension. Among these technologies, I am now reading about WCF - Windows CardSpace, formerly known as InfoCard. Put shortly, it is all about providing applications with standardized infrastructure for identity management. There will be some lectures on it on the incoming Microsoft Days on 21st - I hope that the presenters will give us a better and thorough view of this exciting technology.