The WPF/E Developer Environment on Windows Vista

As I have promised you, today Softpedia debuts the Tweak Mode category for Microsoft products, and especially for Windows Vista. You may or may not have read about the Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (codename) recently released by the Redmond Company. And let's just say that you want to try it out on Vista, but you want a little more than the average performance. In fact you want the complete WPF/E Developer Environment.

While the client runtime installation is designed not to cause any problems whatsoever, installing the WPF/E Developer Environment on Windows Vista is a whole different matter altogether. And is closely connected with Visual Studio 2005.

You'll need a few things though. The December Community Technology Preview of Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere as well as the WPF/E December CTP SDK. Additionally, you will need an update and an add-inn to Visual Studio 2005, and last but not least the WPF/E template.

Here is the installation process as described by Windows Technical Evangelist, Tim Sneath:

1. Close any open instances of Visual Studio 2005;
2. Install the "WPF/E" December CTP client runtime;
3. Install the "WPF/E" December CTP SDK;
4. Install the Visual Studio 2005 Update to Support Web Application Projects;
5. Install the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Add-In;
6. Download the WPF/E template from here as a ZIP file;
7. Copy the ZIP file to the following directory (you'll need to create it):
%ProgramFiles%Microsoft Visual Studio 8Common7IDEProjectTemplatesCSharpWPFE
8. Open an elevated command prompt;
9. From the prompt, run %ProgramFiles%Microsoft Visual Studio 8Common7IDEdevenv /setup
10. Finished!