WPF Development tools Installation WPF Development tools Installation
Visual Studio 2008 enables the development for .NET 3.5 and 3.0, and includes a XAML visual editor. At the time of this writing (16th december, 2007), it is only available to MSDN subscribers in the US version.
It is possible to build .NET 3.0 WPF applications with Visual Studio 2005 and specific tools for .NET 3.0. The Express version of Visual Studio 2005 is available as a free download .
The .NET 3.0 development tools are also free, and must be installed in the following order (after Visual Studio 2005 installation) :
- .NET Framework 3.0
- Windows SDK for .NET 3.0
- Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET 3.0
1..NET Framework 3.0 installation
See the article about this subject
2.Windows SDK for .NET 3.0 installation
The installation program downloads needed components. But you can download a full ISO image.
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To avoid having to burn a DVD, you can mount the ISO Image in a virtual drive, i.e. with Daemon Tools .
3.Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET 3.0
Orcas was the codename for Visual Studio 2008, which support visual development for WPF by means of various tools, whose preliminary version is available for Visual Studio 2005. These tools include WPF project wizards and a wysiwyg Xaml editor, not finalized yet.
Download (November 2006 CTP)
You can find more detailed information on the !link!Tim Sneath's blog!http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/12/20/building-a-perfect-wpf-developer-workstation.aspx