Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...

re: Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...

BobStrogg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:21:15 GMT

Figured it out. I had other resources inside <DockPanel.Resources>. That was ok with the May CTP, but for June the other resources have to be inside the <ResourceDictionary> element.

It'd still be nice to have an explanation why this works though! ;o)

re: Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...

BobStrogg — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:26:00 GMT

Hi Tim :o) What's the deal with ResourceDictionary in the June CTP? I've got some XAML that's something like this:

<DockPanel.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Charts.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
...
</DockPanel.Resources>

But at runtime it now gives me an error: "Cannot add element to property 'Resources', because the property can have only one child element if it uses an explicit collection tag. Error at object 'System.Windows.Style'."

Is there a better / new way to include resources from files?

Also are we likely to see anti-aliasing in Viewport3D anytime soon? (maybe it's already there...).

Thanks!

Chris Cavanagh

WPF Changes In June CTP

hacked.brain — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:00:20 GMT

re: Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...

Alberto — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:02:55 GMT

Hi!

I'm installing WinFX CTP June 2006 in a Virtual Machine, with Windows XP SP2.

My trouble is that I've installed .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components, WinFX SDK, and Visual Studio 2005 (in that order). When I'm going to install Orcas, it says that WinFX runtime is missing.

Previously I installed the components in this order: VS2005, .NET 3.0 Runtime and WinFX SDK, and I got the same error when I tried to install Orcas.

What am I doing wrong?

Best regards.

re: Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...

Tim Sneath — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:17:21 GMT

Sam and Jeroen, I believe they're preparing a release but no real news right now. The old one won't work unfortunately - this release isn't binary compatible with the Beta 2 release.

Tomi, thanks for the feedback. It runs with WMP 11 as part of Windows Vista, but I confess I haven't personally tested on Windows XP. We'll investigate on Monday and reply either to the blog or the email you sent privately.

Yuval, WPF is feature-complete at this stage. You're unlikely to see any additions to the platform itself at this stage, apart from hopefully improved performance and fewer bugs. On the other hand, the tools are continuing to evolve pretty quickly and you'll see continued improvements both in features and their ability to parse XAML edge cases as we get closer to release.

Thanks to you all for your comments.

Tim

re: Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...

Yuval — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:31:14 GMT

Hi Tim,

Can you please inform us what's new for WPF in the June 2006 CTP, especially with respect tot the May CTP?

Kind Regards,
Yuval

re: Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...

Tomi B. — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:05:58 GMT

I had problems getting MediaElement to work at all. Turns out the culprit was Windows Media Player 11 Beta. I got MediaElement to work on two machines by rolling back to WMP 10.

re: Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...

Adnan Hashmi — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:38:03 GMT

SDK link [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=40&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=8D09697E-4868-4D8D-A4CF-9B82A2AE542D&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f4%2f3%2f6%2f4369A25B-D3FC-4F0E-B90A-21A280C60B5F%2f6.0.5456.3.0.WindowsSDK_Vista_idw.DVD.Rel.img] not working.

.NET Framework 3.0 June 2006 CTP just released

Erwyn van der Meer — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:12:43 GMT

Microsoft has just released the June 2006 CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0 (fka WinFX Runtime Components)....

re: Hot Off the Presses: WinFX June CTP Is Here...

Jeroen Ritmeijer — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:23:36 GMT

Hi Tim, the link to the June SDK on the download page you are referring to does not work.

Is there also an updated interactive Designer or is the old one compatible with the new SDK?