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WinFX and Visual Studio 2005

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All of the bits distributed at the PDC were concurrently made available for download on MSDN under the name, “September CTP.”  For WinFX users, it is important to know that the September CTP releases of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are not compatible with the September CTP release of WinFX; the September CTP release of WinFX works on Visual Studio Beta 2. 

For a fully-featured WinFX September CTP environment, the best option at present is to install these pieces in this order: 

• Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 from the MSDN subscribers download site, being careful to first uninstall any earlier pre-release version of Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. 
• The WinFX September Community Technology Preview (CTP) from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ffd636f0-86e9-41e8-9e1c-100a4cc4888f&displaylang=en, again, being careful to first uninstall any earlier pre-release versions of WinFX and its constituents. 
• The WinFX SDK September CTP from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C20CC6C8-1F4E-4A5C-BC79-C2FE9ABE69AA&displaylang=en. 
• The Visual Studio Extensions for WinFX September CTP from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EDE1A645-2A53-42E1-8482-3BF1FADADE06&displaylang=en. 

WinFx Beta 2 will be out in December, along with Vista Beta 2, and it will be compatible with the final release of Visual Studio 2005.