Vista - Have I installed incorrectly?

I installed .NET 3 + the various other links referred to at the bottom of
the same page....

1) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 CTP Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF &
WPF)
2) Microsoft Windows SDK for .NET Framework 3.0
3) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows WorkFlow Foundation

I start a new Windows Application (WPF) and see an app with a new form.
When I add a menu I get a control that is not draw at all, it is just a
resizable + repositional rectangle. Clicking the "Items" property lets me
add multiple "System.Object" items.

Adding a TabControl looks a little bit better, but there is no right-click
context menu for adding pages, adding "Items" again adds System.Object which
I cannot edit.

Finally the properties of the controls all look a bit odd. Instead of a
Font property with an editor I have a list of individual items with no
special editor support

FontFamily, FontSize, FontStretch, FontWeight

In the "Layout" category I have properties like this

Grid.Column, Gird.ColumnSpan, Grid.Row, Grid.RowSpan


Basically it all looks a bit screwed up, I have the same behaviour on two
PCs. Can anyone tell me what is going on?

Thanks

Pete

Hi Peter,

The "Cider" extensions for Visual Studio are still in early beta so you
can't really do much in the designer yet. Visual Studio is useful for
editing the raw XAML though.

The Expression suite has a XAML designer which is a little bit farther along
in development (although still in beta) so you might have better luck using
that.

I personally have grown accustomed to just writing the XAML code myself in
VS without the use of a designer. It's not that bad once you get the hang
of what objects do what.

Bill


"Peter Morris [Droopy eyes software]" <pete@droopyeyes.no.com.spam> wrote in
message news:O2i3BeJFHHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I installed .NET 3 + the various other links referred to at the bottom of
>the same page....
>
> 1) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 CTP Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF
> & WPF)
> 2) Microsoft Windows SDK for .NET Framework 3.0
> 3) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows WorkFlow Foundation
>
> I start a new Windows Application (WPF) and see an app with a new form.
> When I add a menu I get a control that is not draw at all, it is just a
> resizable + repositional rectangle. Clicking the "Items" property lets me
> add multiple "System.Object" items.
>
> Adding a TabControl looks a little bit better, but there is no right-click
> context menu for adding pages, adding "Items" again adds System.Object
> which I cannot edit.
>
> Finally the properties of the controls all look a bit odd. Instead of a
> Font property with an editor I have a list of individual items with no
> special editor support
>
> FontFamily, FontSize, FontStretch, FontWeight
>
> In the "Layout" category I have properties like this
>
> Grid.Column, Gird.ColumnSpan, Grid.Row, Grid.RowSpan
>
>
> Basically it all looks a bit screwed up, I have the same behaviour on two
> PCs. Can anyone tell me what is going on?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pete
>

Oh right. I didn't realise it was in such an early stage. I think I'll
wait a while then.

Thanks for the info!



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Pete

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