.net 3.0 + WPF/WCF/WTF/etc on vista
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Well, what exactly do I need to download to start playing with the new technologies? I've got Vista installed, so .net 3.0 is there. VS2005 installed, no idea how stable it is but time will show. Now, what do I need to install to use all the W*Fs? I remember before, MS constantly released two copies of things - for devs, and for users(a redist package). Well, I really do not know where to find the dev versions ofthings (or maybe its all one download now?). Thanks for any insignts into this..
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Well, what exactly do I need to download to start playing with the new technologies? I've got Vista installed, so .net 3.0 is there. VS2005 installed, no idea how stable it is but time will show. Now, what do I need to install to use all the W*Fs? I remember before, MS constantly released two copies of things - for devs, and for users(a redist package). Well, I really do not know where to find the dev versions ofthings (or maybe its all one download now?). Thanks for any insignts into this..
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You could start with downloading the latest platform SDK from M$, last time I looked there was one for vista of nearly 2GB. The prefered language for accessing the new technologies is through managed code. You didn't mention in your post what language you are used to, if it's C++ there is a new article on CP about accessing the above mentioned technologies from C++. In all honesty though, it's going to be quite some time before any applications you make will cater for a large audience. Vista is new, expensive and most of the bells and whistles rely on the aero theme. Personaly, I will play, but anything I create would be based on Direct3D and not vista's built in technologies.
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Well, what exactly do I need to download to start playing with the new technologies? I've got Vista installed, so .net 3.0 is there. VS2005 installed, no idea how stable it is but time will show. Now, what do I need to install to use all the W*Fs? I remember before, MS constantly released two copies of things - for devs, and for users(a redist package). Well, I really do not know where to find the dev versions ofthings (or maybe its all one download now?). Thanks for any insignts into this..
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You have all the runtimes already, so you don't need anything extra to run W?F apps. WPF/E is different and is still in the CTP stage, so if you want to install that, tread cautiously. If you want to do dev with W?F, I have no clue, I'm a native code guy. :)
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Well, what exactly do I need to download to start playing with the new technologies? I've got Vista installed, so .net 3.0 is there. VS2005 installed, no idea how stable it is but time will show. Now, what do I need to install to use all the W*Fs? I remember before, MS constantly released two copies of things - for devs, and for users(a redist package). Well, I really do not know where to find the dev versions ofthings (or maybe its all one download now?). Thanks for any insignts into this..
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Anton, The .Net 3.0 assemblies can be found on your harddrive at C:\\Program Files\\Reference Assemblies\\Microsoft\\Framework\\v3.0. I started this article (http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Vista_Speech_Recognition.asp[^]) with an explanation of the steps (just a few) you need to follow to start developing with Visual Studio 2005 on Vista. So far, I havn't run into any problems developing on Vista. It's actually very nice, and I'm enjoying the new OS. James