Fun with Beta products…
March 15, 2006
Saw this link to what looks like a cool app to get started with WinFX:
Coding4Fun: Designing FreeCell using Expression and Visual Studio Toolsets
The article directed me to download the January CTP from the following link:
Windows Vista Developer Center: Welcome to the Windows Vista and WinFX Beta Page
- WinFx RC – Microsoft Pre-Release Software WinFX Runtime Components – February Community Technology Preview (CTP)
- Visual Studio 2005 (I already had it installed)
- Windows SDK – Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) for the February 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Windows Vista and WinFX Runtime Components
Everything downloaded and installed with no problems. Opened the solution in Visual Studio and build… results in the following error message:
‘http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2005/06/markup-compatibility’ is not a recognized namespace.
Apparently there has been changes in the namespaces since the January CTP… great… after looking around for a while, I found this tool to convert the xmlns.
XamlMigrate – XamlMigrate is a tool to help convert xmlns uris in WPF XAML to the new xmlns uris in the Feb 2006 CTP.
After running this tool on the xaml files
> xamlmigrate /mode:overwrite *.xaml
Everything builds and I am now playing FreeCell…. instead of walking through the code.
Oh the joy of Beta testing…
