Did Microsoft abandon support for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on Visual Studio 2005?
There was the a Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the WPF and WCF, but it's no longer available for download. There are released extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) for Visual Studio 2005.
But as far as i can tell Microsoft abandoned support for WPF in Visual Studio 2005, and instead released them as Visual Studio 2008. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Yes, unfortunately it looks like the extensions are no longer supported - see this MSDN blog post for further details.
To quote the blog entry from "Anthony @ MS" that Stu pointed out:
VS 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WPF & WCF) CTP is Coming off the MS Download Center
In November 2006 Microsoft released a CTP version of the VS 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WPF & WCF). We released this CTP as a stop gap to provide developers the needed (albeit very limited) set tools to start developing for the .NET Framework 3.0. This was never intended to release as a complete product and was only intended as a stop gap until Visual Studio 2008, codenamed Orcas was released.
Since then Visual Studio 2008 has released and SP1 is on the way. With VS 2008 you have a set of tools designed entirely to take advantages of the functionality introduced with WCF & WPF. Users who have been developing using the CTP extensions should have already migrated their projects to VS 2008 to take advtange of the new functionality which is far better than what we were able to deliver in the CTP.
On Monday, June 30th 2008, the license for this CTP will expire. The download will be removed from the MS Download center. At that point any existing users should work on migrating their projects to VS 2008 to take advantage of the fully supported WPF & WCF support.
Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:34 AM
i guess it would have been nice of them to indicate up front that they had no intention of releasing a final form of the extensions.
Yeah, it never went beyond the CTP.
Only option is to handcrank beyond what the ctp provides.
I guess they want you to upgrade to VS 2008.
