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NuTcAsE
नमस्तॆ

Dunno if any one else posted this or not... but heres the ISO images to Avalon and Indigo Beta 1 RC1 SDK.

SDK & Redist.

EDIT:
Links fixed. Any one try these out yet?

PeterF
Early Adopter

downloading the SDK now, didn't see the link anywhere else yet. Kind of slow though, 5 k/s at the moment. Thanks for the link

footballism
Another Paradigm Shift!

I really appreciate ur download link:)
104kB/s here for me:) Smiley

figuerres
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NuTcAsE wrote:
Dunno if any one else posted this or not... but heres the ISO images to Avalon and Indigo Beta 1 RC1 SDK.

SDK & Redist.

EDIT:
Links fixed. Any one try these out yet?

YOWSA!!!!!! Must get now....

NuTcAsE
नमस्तॆ

PeterF wrote:
downloading the SDK now, didn't see the link anywhere else yet. Kind of slow though, 5 k/s at the moment. Thanks for the link

footballism wrote:
I really appreciate ur download link
104kB/s here for me

No probs. Sucks for me as I can't dl the stuff at office Sad

.. Have to wait till i get back home.

rhm

NuTcAsE wrote:
Dunno if any one else posted this or not... but heres the ISO images to Avalon and Indigo Beta 1 RC1 SDK.

SDK & Redist.

EDIT:
Links fixed. Any one try these out yet?

Is there an MSDN page yet explaining the download (i.e. confirming that it's for VS2005 beta2)?

NuTcAsE
नमस्तॆ

rhm wrote:

NuTcAsE wrote: Dunno if any one else posted this or not... but heres the ISO images to Avalon and Indigo Beta 1 RC1 SDK.

SDK & Redist.

EDIT:
Links fixed. Any one try these out yet?

Is there an MSDN page yet explaining the download (i.e. confirming that it's for VS2005 beta2)?

Check MSDN Downloads. It says there

MSDN Downloads wrote:
This Beta1 "RC" release supports Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 and the .NET Framework 2.0 beta 2. There is also an updated WinFX SDK, including documentation, samples and tools available for this release.

PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

Wonderful! Thanks for posting!

Stephen

HellSnoopy

Nice !

RaiN
Windows Vista ;]

Does it work with VS .NET 2005 beta2 Team Suite?

NuTcAsE
नमस्तॆ

RaiN wrote:
Does it work with VS .NET 2005 beta2 Team Suite?

Well it says the drop is compatible with VS.Net 2005 Beta 2. I'm assuming that means the Team Suite too. Hvnt completed the download yet so will post about it once i try.

figuerres
???

but slow -- slowwwwwww download!

Tom Servo
W-hat?

Must have hit a nice download server, 420kb/s Smiley

Tom Servo
W-hat?

Does anyone get resource loading exceptions with Avalon projects you've built? My project's complaining about not finding the BAML in the resources.

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.IO.IOException: Cannot locate the resource 'clownshoe/contactlist.baml'.

Running the affected file through a hex editor tells me it's in there. Help? Sad

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

I do not understand Microsoft servers anymore. This afernoon I tried to download but gave up on it since I could only get a few KB per second.

Just now I tried it again and got around 10MB per second, downloaded the whole 351MB ISO image in under a minute.

NuTcAsE
नमस्तॆ

Okay... finally got it working. Seems like you need to install the Redist before installing the SDK for the WinFx assemblies to be registered.

I first tried installing just the SDK but none of my previous projects worked. The problem was that no WinFx assemblies seemed to be registered in the GAC. So, i uninstalled the SDK, installed the redist and then installed the SDK. Everything seems to be working fine now.

Also works with the Team Suite.

Tom Servo
W-hat?

Where do I find a MSI extractor? I've noticed PresentationFramework.Aero.dll showing up during installation, but the file is nowhere to be found on disk. And it's also referenced in the MSI. I want to extract it and play around with it.

figuerres
???

Tom Servo wrote:
Where do I find a MSI extractor? I've noticed PresentationFramework.Aero.dll showing up during installation, but the file is nowhere to be found on disk. And it's also referenced in the MSI. I want to extract it and play around with it.

I bet it has an install dep. on OperatingSystem==Longhorn

figuerres
???

Sven Groot wrote:
I do not understand Microsoft servers anymore. This afernoon I tried to download but gave up on it since I could only get a few KB per second.

Just now I tried it again and got around 10MB per second, downloaded the whole 351MB ISO image in under a minute.

I *THINK* from what I recall they they have farms of servers and have some kind of "Load Balance" that is at least in part based on a DNS RR loop.

sometimes a use of ipconfig /flushdns will pick another server from the pool.

I have seen the problem with MSDN downloads and with www.gotdotnet.com at times

Betsy -- works on GDN site; at one time told me that some servers may show up on a client browser that are out for some reason. we saw a lag between her admin action and my client getting a "fresh" server from the farm.

so it may not be DNS based, it may be IP maping etc...

but it is a funky problem that needs some MSFT TLC and perhaps a reasearch project to look at a
"Torrent Like" model where the client can see say 250 servers to pull from in paralel.

let the client time a whole slew of servers and pick the fastest ones....

Tom Servo
W-hat?

figuerres wrote:
I bet it has an install dep. on OperatingSystem==Longhorn

I've extracted it using some tool called MSI2XML, which I've found on Sourceforge. I can't figure out what to do with it. It just contains two classes, AeroButtonChrome and AeroScrollChrome, former is derived from Decorator, latter from FrameworkElement. I have no idea how to reuse those. Ah well.

androidi

For the curious there's MSDN article coming up regarding the changes in the latest Avalon Beta 1 RC bits, but here's a sneak peek.

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2005/05/24/421474.aspx

Some important quotes..

For this Beta 1 RC release, we have enabled a set of features that allows developers to include media in their applications for simple, one-time playback.

Incase anyone else was wondering why the RepeatBehaviour.Forever thing did not seem to work.

Karsten Januszewski says in microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.avalon that

--WMP 10 required
--Only .wma and .wmv

However this information seems to be not entirely correct as I had some xvid AVI that played quite nicely through Avalon MediaElement Source="blah.avi". So we can presume it is using DirectShow cause that worked and that would lead to presume most other video codecs work as well if there's no conflicts etc in the graph.

karstenj
Karsten Januszewski

Yes, you correct it is DShow underneath the covers, and that's cool that the avi worked, although officially it hasn't been tested yet. Smiley

Tom Servo
W-hat?

Any plans for an overhaul of the video stuff in far future? Avalon has the image codec stuff now, anything around video planned for Avalon v2?

androidi

Well the "Educated Guess" department brings you that most certainly there will be future Avalon CTPs, possibly separately for XP and glued on with the Longhorn releases. And my guess for when is "this year". They wouldn't leave such big thing to the last second I hope..

NickLucas

The PresentationFramework.Aero.dll can be found in:

\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.0

This posting may be a bit late, but may be useful for other trying to hunt it down !