The file system lies at the heart of almost any operating system. It is the core code that allows applications to store, retrieve, and interact with stored information. File systems have evolved fairly slowly compared to the other systems technologies that programmers use, but we will see that "WinFS", the code name for the file system in "Longhorn", changes all of that.
In this episode of the .NET Show Quentin Clark and Anil Nori share with us some of the architectural concepts of WinFS, and how it changes the way programmers and users will interact with the information they store on their systems. Later Mike Deem walks us through some code that shows how to code against this new file system in order to make information easier to work with.
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