Thursday, June 15, 2006 - Posts

Windows Presentation Foundation - Day 1 - Getting started

Click here for an overview of all posts in this series.

 
Over the next few weeks, hopefully not months, I will dive, head first, into the new Microsoft .net Framework 3.0. I will focus mainly on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), but I may sneak in some Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF, not WWF as that one was already taken ;-).
 
I will get some help from one of the few real world WPF experts, Andrew Whiddett, who created the excellent WPF based Nascar kiosk. I will blog about my experiences so if you are interested subscribe to my RSS feed.
 
So, before we can do anything we need to setup our development environment with all the required development tools, SDKs and runtime components.
 
We are currently at Beta 2, but as versions and links will be changing I am only going to provide one link, which is to the new .net Framework 3 site. From here you can download the .net framework 3.0 and all other components.
 
Click on the download link and download:
  • WinFX runtime components.
  • Windows SDK for WinFX Runtime Components
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions - Development Tools for WinFX
After everything has been installed we need to verify that it works. The easiest thing is to open and compile one of the examples that come with the SDK. All WPF Samples are available in the following ZIP file:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v1.0\samples\WPFSamples.zip
Unzip the archive and open one of the examples such as:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v1.0\samples\WPFSamples\Demos\15Puzzle\Csharp\15Puzzle.csproj
And execute it.
 
Andrew also advices to download the following as it will probably come in handy:

 

posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:56 AM by jritmeijer with 1 Comments