Posts filed under ‘WCF/Indigo’
Vista installed…
Took the plung today and installed the x64 version of Windows Vista (build 5308) on my machine. I had a spare 3 GB of disk space that I thought would be enough.. 10 mins later I was running Acronis disk manager from CD (nobody appears to have Partition management software for Windows XP Pro x64) to steal some space from another partiton. I needed a min of 11 GB of disk space to install Vista.
Continue Reading Tuesday 28th February, 2006 at 11:31 pm 2 comments
WinFX CTP’s – Monthly changes
The new approach by Microsoft to produce regular updates to their Customer Technology Previews (CTPs) is much needed. No longer do we have to wait months (or years) between releases to find code that we have developed left limping along or just plain hosed – a gibbering wreck due to namespace or library changes…
Continue Reading Sunday 26th February, 2006 at 9:22 am 1 comment
PerPixelOpacity makes it into the WPF CTP for Feb
Cool beans!
PerPixelOpacity allows for non-regular shapes – allowing all sorts of groovy things.
Lester (msdn blogger) illustrates how to use it to create an unique splash screen here.
Watch out for the WinFX Runtime Uninstall tool
Watch out for the WinFX Feb Uninstall tool. It can turn Visual Studio 2005 into a gibbering wreck…
Continue Reading Wednesday 22nd February, 2006 at 7:32 pm Leave a comment
WinFX Feb CTP (x64 & x86)
The Feb WinFX CTP is available for download from here (x64) and here (x86).
You’ll need to remove previous versions of WinFX before installing – MS have released a tool to make things painless here.
Now if I could only get invited to the Vista Feb CTP due out today…
