August 2005 - Posts

Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions for WinFX Beta 1 has shipped

I mentioned earlier this week that the new WinFX SDK did not contain Visual Studio Integation. Well now the Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions for WinFX Beta 1 has shipped. The Avalon Intellisense works pretty well and I now longer get the warnings about the missing schemas for avalon and xaml. Check it out:



But it's by no means perfect. For instance, it doesn't like the idea of a XAML file with a ContentControl tag as the root and the Intellisense stops working.
posted Friday, August 05, 2005 8:33 AM by robcannonsoftware with 0 Comments

WinFX SDK available last week, but Visual Studio Integration comes this week

Last week, the new Beta 1 of WinFX SDK was released, pulled, and released again.  You can find it here.  To save you from the time that I spent, you will find that there is no Visual Studio Integration in that package (unlike the Beta 1 RC release).  In the old release, there were new project and item types that I could not find after completing this install.

So, according to the MS WinFx SDK newsgroup, an new package called the "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WinFX Beta 1" will be available for download sometime this week.  My supposition is that it will contain more than just the templates for creating new projects, otherwise why move it to it's own package...

posted Monday, August 01, 2005 8:23 AM by robcannonsoftware with 0 Comments