My WPF Build Environment
Setting up your WPF build environment can be a tedious exercise. this weekend, I re-formatted my build PC... here is what I installed to get it up and running again:
Operating System
- Windows XP Professional
- Service Pack 3
- All my laptop's drivers (Downloaded newest version from web)
- Run Windows Updated and install all the available updates
Development Software
- Visual Studio 2008 Professional
- Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview (Build number MUST be 2.1.1113.0 or better)
- Windows SDK (Also read Installing Win SDK after VS2008 breaks XAML Intellisense)
Updates
- Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 vs Silverlight 2.0
Currently, you can not install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Silverlight Tools Beta 1 (Read more here).
[UPDATE] Just announced at Tech-ed, Silverlight Tools Beta 2 will be available by the end of this week (Read more here)
Visual Studio Settings
Permanent Link to Making Visual Studio 2008 Only Show XAML
Other useful add-ins
Microsoft Source Analysis for C#
PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008
Snippets
Dr WPF & Nerds + Art snippets
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