At this site we will talk about WPF working at Windows XP SP2. And you need something more...


DEVELOPER REQUIREMENTS

1 - First of all you need to uninstall, if you have, using the Control Panel, everything related to previous versions of:

• Visual Studio 2005 Extentions for WinFX
  
• Windows SDK
  
• WinFX Runtime Components
  

If you was using the Nov CTP all this software are of the subversion 134. Now you need to install the subversions 151!

You need to uninstall only beta versions of the .NET Framework 2.0 or Visual C# Express. If you have the actual versions you don't need to uninstall them.

2 - The "WinFX Runtime Components" are the basic software to run WPF applications. The user will need it - and the developer too. Instrutions for download and installation, here:

Running the downloaded file, another download for installation:

3 - Now the worst part... You need to download and install the SDK. More than 1 Gb!!!

Go to the page:

The download includes the WinFX technologies: .NET Framework 2.0 (if you have installed, no problem), Windows® Presentation Foundation, Windows® Communications Foundation, and Windows® Workflow Foundation.

This download is an .IMG image file, an exact representation of a CD, including the content and the logical format. The most common use of an image file is to write it to a blank CD-R resulting in an identical copy of the original CD including file name and volume label information.

Image files can also be extracted directly to a file location using the Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP tool to mount the image file virtually without burning the image to a DVD.

Click the hyperlink to download the tool:

It's a .ZIP file. The installation and use instructions are:

• 1. Copy VCdRom.sys to your %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder.
• 2. Execute VCdControlTool.exe
• 3. Click "Driver control"
• 4. If the "Install Driver" button is available, click it. Navigate to the %systemroot%\system32\drivers folder, select VCdRom.sys, and click Open.
• 5. Click "Start"
• 6. Click OK
• 7. Click "Add Drive" to add a drive to the drive list. Ensure that the drive added is not a local drive. If it is, continue to click "Add Drive" until an unused drive letter is available.
• 8. Select an unused drive letter from the drive list and click "Mount".
• 9. Navigate to the image file, select it, and click "OK". UNC naming conventions should not be used, however mapped network drives should be OK.
• 10. You may now use the drive letter as if it were a local CD-ROM device. When you are finished you may unmount, stop, and remove the driver from memory using the driver control.

Installing the SDK you will see:

and, finally:

4 - We will use the FREE Visual C# Express. If you doen't have it installed yet you can download it from here:

Easy to install.

5 - And finally you need to download and install the WinFX extensions for the Visual C#:

No problem. OK. You will not have any "Orca" or "Cider" at the Visual C# Express...

It's something like a plugin of 25 Mb!

1 - The "WinFX Runtime Components" are the basic software to run WPF applications. The user will ned it . Instrutions for download and installation, here:

2 - And the user (the developer has it included in the SDK) needs to install the Redistributable Package of the .NET 2.0:

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