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WinFS designers on .NET show -- what would you ask?

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Robert Hess tells me the next episode of The .NET Show on MSDN will cover WinFS. He's interested in feedback on what topics you'd like to see covered.

His guests will be: Mike Deem, Quentin Clark, and Anil Nori.

What would you ask these guys about -- the philosophy behind WinFS? How they design the schemas, data model or API? Questions around performance or security? Architectural guidelines on how to best leverage WinFS in your apps? What you can do to prepare your apps today to use WinFS?

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  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2004
    Let Mike Deem know that his excellant blog posts on WinFS are missed.

    I'm interested in the query language for talking to WinFS.
  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2004
    Though I'm frequenting the WinFS newsgroups a lot, I can't make up anything interesting except THE question I'm most interested in but never got an answer on:

    How will large (multimegabyte) binary data handled the "WinFS way"? For instance when it comes to audio files, uncompressed image data and all other sort of data that requires a lot of diskspace in its atomic form. The current only "WinFS way" is to access a byte array (System.Storage.Files.File.Stream[]). The more efficient way is currently the old way, which consists of retrieving the UNC path to the file (\localhostfolder[...]itemname) and then opening it oldskool by creating a FileStream with that path. The byte array design requires the system to load all data into memory, the FileStream way allows you to process little chunks and conserve memory. I'd like to know if that byte array design is finalized on file backed items or if there'll be another method added to the File class, which will return a FileStream directly without the UNC path fiddling. Kinda like:

    File file = ...;
    FileStream fileStream = file.GetFileStream();
  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2004
    I would like to know how PeerToPeer data persistence ties into WinFS. That is the ability to publish a file or database and have it shared with a number of subscribers. Kind of like offline files, but more distributed.
  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2004
    Less talk and more live examples of real world scenearios, would be nice, and how and when, this techology will improve, dramatically, what developers do today for end users tomorrow.

    Thanks
  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2004
    Less talk and more live examples of real world scenearios, would be nice, and how and when, this techology will improve, dramatically, what developers do today for end users tomorrow.

    Thanks
  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2004
    Maybe how I can use WinFS as a document repository (ala Windows Sharepoint Services)
  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2004
    What are installation, deployment issues related to WinFS? Can you use any sort of scripting to load content?

    Is there any sort of remote access to the Store?
  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2004
    thanks for all the excellent suggestions, keep 'em coming!