contradictory installation instructions
In my office/work PC, I had installed from downloaded file
"Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2.exe"
somewhen from November, 2005.
Today I started to install "it" at home PC and observe that download page
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E27AA8DC-A029-4836-AC59-6B4805DF42FA&displaylang=en
contains the download dated by 12/20/2005
What are the differences?
Whether it is worth to "upgrade"?
And if not will I have compatibility between my office/work PC installation (from somewhen November's installation download) and home PC installation (dated by 12/20/2005)?
The current download page sentences are rather confusing to me:
"If you are a WinFX customer, you should download the WinFX December CTP Runtime Components here. Note: you must install the WinFX Runtime Components before installing the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation."
I couldn't understand - is it obligatory to install WinFX Runtime components in order to use WWF extensions?
The installation succeded without WinFX components (at home PC). Though earlier I thought it was a prerequisite but currently when I attempted to install WinFX Runtime components (also dated with new to me 12/19/2005) I had received a notification that I should first uninstall WWF (should I? in order to use it)
Then this download page contains a phrase:
"There are two downloads on this page:"
Well, it has one download by a "Download" button in the beginning/top of the page and 5 downloads at the end/bottom of the page "What Others Are Downloading"
Concerning that enigmatic another download or differences between those 2 downloads:
The second mentioned download is described as necessary for designing workflows and the first one for running workflows. The description of the first download contains the phrase: " NOTE: The runtime component download is temporarily unavailable"
The "Microsoft Pre-Release Software WinFX Runtime Components - December Community Technology Preview (CTP)" download page
In my office/work PC, I had installed from downloaded file
"Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2.exe"
somewhen from November, 2005.
Today I started to install "it" at home PC and observe that download page
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E27AA8DC-A029-4836-AC59-6B4805DF42FA&displaylang=en
contains the download dated by 12/20/2005
What are the differences?
Whether it is worth to "upgrade"?
And if not will I have compatibility between my office/work PC installation (from somewhen November's installation download) and home PC installation (dated by 12/20/2005)?
The current download page sentences are rather confusing to me:
"If you are a WinFX customer, you should download the WinFX December CTP Runtime Components here. Note: you must install the WinFX Runtime Components before installing the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation."
I couldn't understand - is it obligatory to install WinFX Runtime components in order to use WWF extensions?
The installation succeded without WinFX components (at home PC). Though earlier I thought it was a prerequisite but currently when I attempted to install WinFX Runtime components (also dated with new to me 12/19/2005) I had received a notification that I should first uninstall WWF (should I? in order to use it)
Then this download page contains a phrase:
"There are two downloads on this page:"
Well, it has one download by a "Download" button in the beginning/top of the page and 5 downloads at the end/bottom of the page "What Others Are Downloading"
Concerning that enigmatic another download or differences between those 2 downloads:
The second mentioned download is described as necessary for designing workflows and the first one for running workflows. The description of the first download contains the phrase: " NOTE: The runtime component download is temporarily unavailable"
The "Microsoft Pre-Release Software WinFX Runtime Components - December Community Technology Preview (CTP)" download page has also a new to me date 12/19/2005 and tells:
"The WinFX Runtime Components December CTP enables developers to continue experimenting with early builds of these technologies[one of them is WWF], get acquainted with the development experience..."
Though I couldn't understand why WWF extensions installation succeded without any run-time components installation
Can u decipher me what downloads to install:
1)
to only design WFs,
2)
to only run WFs
2a)
to design with standalone workflow designer (control)
3)
to do both 1) and 2)?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BD3BA2D5-6ADB-4FB2-A3AA-E16A9EA5603F&displaylang=en
has also a new to me date 12/19/2005 and tells:
"The WinFX Runtime Components December CTP enables developers to continue experimenting with early builds of these technologies[one of them is WWF], get acquainted with the development experience..."
Though I couldn't understand why WWF extensions installation succeded without any run-time components installation
Can u decipher me what downloads to install:
1)
to only design WFs,
2)
to only run WFs
2a)
to design with standalone workflow designer (control)
3)
to do both 1) and 2)?
and how can I mix installations from November and December ?
whether the installation from November is compatible with that from December (i.e can I bring the VS 2005 project from one PC to another)?
Should I uninstall and reinstall all (from November, nad, it seems, from December) in order to use, e.g., WinFX Development Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D1336F3E-E677-426B-925C-C84A54654414&displaylang=en
from 12/16/2005?
Again, I am also confused with
"Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2.exe" from 12/20/2005 instructions
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E27AA8DC-A029-4836-AC59-6B4805DF42FA&displaylang=en
:
"Visual Studio is not required for this installation. This will install the neccessary platform components as well as some elements of the Windows Workflow Foundation SDK. "
And waht features of SDK are not installed and why? What is the sense in VS extensions without VS?
