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tjb - 04 Oct 2006 08:45 GMT

Will .NET 3.0 work with VS 2005? For example, will I be able to design
GUIs with XAML in with .NET 3.0 and VS 2005?

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Guruk - 04 Oct 2006 11:44 GMT

Here's what I've heard from my Microsoft Rep...

As I've mentioned previously, Windows Vista will ship with the .NET
Framework 3.0 pre-installed. We're also testing to ensure that your
.NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 applications will work on Windows Vista so
that your existing applications will continue to run as expected.
However, we will not support Visual Studio .NET 2002 or Visual Studio
.NET 2003 as development environments on Windows Vista. You can
continue to use Visual Studio .NET 2002 or 2003 on Windows XP to
develop applications that can run on Windows Vista. Given the customer
feedback that we've received since the launch of Visual Studio 2005
indicating the manageability of upgrading from Visual Studio .NET 2003
to Visual Studio 2005, we are focusing our efforts on ensuring VS 2005
is a great development platform for Vista.

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Morten Wennevik - 04 Oct 2006 12:34 GMT

As Guruk said,

Yes, and you can develop today on windows xp sp2 if you like

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6636E90-26E6-44E0-8780
-5D3CCD3D94ED&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28FAD42D-983E-4A57-B5A6
-BF058766A9FF&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=935AABF9-D1D0-4FC9-B443
-877D8EA6EAB8&displaylang=en

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Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

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tjb - 05 Oct 2006 02:28 GMT

> As Guruk said,
>
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> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28FAD42D-983E-4A57-B5A6
-BF058766A9FF&displaylang=en
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=935AABF9-D1D0-4FC9-B443
-877D8EA6EAB8&displaylang=en

That last one is a preview of the new IDE, right? Will the ability to
create XAML-based GUIs integrate with VS 2005?

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Joerg Jooss - 05 Oct 2006 07:59 GMT

Thus wrote tjb,

>> As Guruk said,
>>
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> That last one is a preview of the new IDE, right?

Not exactly. It is a VS2005 based WPF designer.

> Will the ability to
> create XAML-based GUIs integrate with VS 2005?

Yes.

Cheers,

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tjb - 05 Oct 2006 08:10 GMT

>> That last one is a preview of the new IDE, right?
>
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>
> Yes.

Oh, my mistake -- I should've read the description. :)

Thanks!

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Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP] - 05 Oct 2006 15:28 GMT

> Thus wrote tjb,
>> Will the ability to
>> create XAML-based GUIs integrate with VS 2005?
>
> Yes.

I'm not sure that you can make that conclusion. At this moment, the XAML
integration is being released as an add-in for VS2005, but ultimately, Orcas
will be a new version of VS, not an add-on. I don't recall seeing anything
that says that a XAML add-on for VC2005 will be available long-term, but
perhaps that is indeed the case.

For any serious XAML design work, you'd want to the Expression Interactive
Designer anway. It's lightyears better than the rudimentary XAML support in
the VS add-on.

-cd

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Joerg Jooss - 05 Oct 2006 16:11 GMT

Thus wrote Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP],

>> Thus wrote tjb,
>>
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> XAML integration is being released as an add-in for VS2005, but
> ultimately, Orcas will be a new version of VS, not an add-on.

Sure.

> I don't recall seeing anything that says that a XAML add-on for VC2005

will be

> available long-term, but perhaps that is indeed the case.

See Mark's Boulter post here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=772474&SiteID=1.

That's probably not long-term, but I'm not sure if the OP was asking for
that. If the question was whether VS2005 will be a full-fledged .NET 3.0
development platform like Orcas, the answer is certainly no.

> For any serious XAML design work, you'd want to the Expression
> Interactive Designer anway. It's lightyears better than the
> rudimentary XAML support in the VS add-on.

Yes, absolutely.

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