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The January CTP was released last week. I won't be updating my chapters for this CTP, because I have received a later CTP (Feb CTP/RC0) to work with...so if you are reviewing my book you may have to email me with questions.
Here's the instructions to build a machine or VPC for this latest release.
- Operating System: XP Professional with SP2 or Windows 2003 Server (note: I'm not including Vista/Longhorn yet, VPC isn't working well with those)
- SQL Server: Install SQL Server 2000 or 2005, but you can skip this step if you want to use SQL Express which is installed with Visual Studio 2005 if you elect to.
- Visual Studio 2005: include SQL Express if you didn't do step 2. NOTE: I like to keep a VPC handy up to this point, and make copies of it as I need to rebuild for future WinFX CTP releases.
- WinFX Runtime Components (Jan CTP): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=61DD9CA7-1668-42E4-BD37-03716DD83E53&displaylang=en
- Windows SDK (Jan CTP): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=64750EEF-D4A7-4CC8-92F2-9A201268A231&displaylang=en
- Visual Studio Extensions for WinFX (Jan CTP): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5A0AE4CD-DC79-4B12-8A05-B6195F89FFA2&displaylang=en
- Visual Studio Extensions for Workflow (Jan CTP): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A2151993-991D-4F58-A707-5883FF4C1DC2&displaylang=en
There's a Go Live license now available for WCF and WWF. Here's the link to details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/getthebeta/golive/default.aspx
UPDATE 01/26/06 - Don't forget to read the January CTP notes regarding support for WS-AT. You have to install COM+ QFE for this functionality. http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/support/relnotes/winfxjanctp/default.aspx
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