winfx beta 2 vista 5308

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?

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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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?

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. -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Zack Whittaker" wrote in message

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
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Kaetemi" wrote in message 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?

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.
Zack Whittaker wrote:

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

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. -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta "Kaetemi" wrote in message

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.
Zack Whittaker wrote: 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

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 :o)
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Kaetemi" wrote in message

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.
Zack Whittaker wrote: 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