WinFX Beta 2 in Vista 5308

[Kaetemi]

I installed WinFX Beta 2 on a Vista 5308 installation, but when I try to
install the Visual Studio extensions or Expression Interactive Designer,
those installers can't detect the WinFX install, and give an error
saying that I need to install WinFX Beta 2 ...
Anyone know a workaround for the installation of those things?

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Make sure you've got no remnents of the previous WinFX installations, then
reinstall.
Got a script which detects whether your OS can see WinFX or not - try this:
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/technologies/winfxtest

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Actually, it depends on the version of WinFX the applications support. For
example Microsoft codename Max required a specific version of WinFX runtime
to run, later versions do not work unless the team updates their application
to do so.

 

[Kaetemi]

I don't think there would be a previous WinFX installation, as it's a
fresh vista 5308 install, on which I installed the most recent WinFX
(that I downloaded from the msdn winfx site).
The page you gave shows me this:

start WinFX.Test:

This machine has a version of WinFX Runtime: 3.0.50727.
This machine's userAgent string is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0;
Windows NT 6.0; MSDigitalLocker Vista 1.3; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727;
Media Center PC 5.0; WinFX RunTime 3.0.50727; InfoPath.2).

end WinFX.Test:

The version of Expression Interactive Designer I tried to install was
the newest one (May 2006). I just tried installing the March 2006
version, and that one seems to work.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Like I said, the applications that are not working, require a specific
version of the runtime, so its possible you need to stick with the
previously installed version.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

This machine has a version of WinFX Runtime: 3.0.50727.
This machine's userAgent string is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0;
Windows NT 5.1; SV1; WinFX RunTime 3.0.50727).

That's my XP machine - pretty much the same as your WinFX version )

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