Microsoft Avalon and Indigo 2.0.50215.28 Beta 1 RC

This product was designed for creation of applications based on LongHorn's Systems...

It will usefull for developers who wants to do Windows Longhorn more functional.

LINK: http://www.soft32.com/download/63-88547-1/en_avalon_indigo_redist_beta1_RC.zip
The link redirects to Soft32 download page.. then only click on Download Button

I give you a little information about this product:

The presentation subsystem in the next version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," offers powerful new capabilities to developers. This subsystem, code-named "Avalon," allows developers to take advantage of its capabilities through a new markup language code-named "XAML." In addition, modern object-oriented programming languages such as C# and Visual Basic .NET can be used to tie everything together. Because most applications written to Avalon will probably be a mix of XAML and programming code, this article discusses XAML tags used to control page layout along with the procedural code written to respond to events.

An example of application made with Avalon API:








If you like this and needs more tecnical information... check this!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc188739.aspx

It is a interesting tool for LongHorn fans with good ideas

Any info to what longhorns this work on ?

As in screenshots, it maybe somewhere 4029-4039...
But I still think that this work on 4074, too.

This seems interesting, any chance to make it working under Windows 7 maybe?

correct me if i'm wrong.. but its xaml.. right ?

Essentially yes. Though this Longhorn-era version is a far cry from the current .NET 3.x revision. Still, the modern WPF is at least as flexible, if not more flexible. I wouldn't see any need to use this version on Windows 7.

Please excuse me for bumping a half-year old thread, but I thought it would be better than cluttering the forum with another thread.
I've installed Avalon and Indigo on a XP SP3 machine, thinking on trying to find some new ways of porting stuff from longhorn.
I also intend to install the winfs beta1 refresh : this is where my problem comes.

WinFS requires .net framework 2, which conflicts with the beta2 version used by Avalon and Indigo.

Is there a way I can keep both frameworks installed ? (I'm interested in keeping the class names EXACTLY as they are in longhorn)


Thanks and sorry for the bump.

You can have both frameworks installed in theory, but it sure is a pain. A simpler solution is this: You are using the WinFS Beta 1 Refresh, which is simply the original Beta 1 with one or two fixes and updated to use .NET 2.0 RTM.
The original Beta 1 does use .NET 2.0 Beta 2 if I remember correctly, and should therefore be a much better fit.

The only thing is, reading this article again, is that this stuff is much more "Vista" era than Longhorn Era. Indeed, it was released around the same time as Vista Beta 1. WinFS Beta 1 actually was released a whole month after that.

The MSDN Article linked to describes a much earlier Avalon, with it likely being aimed at PDC 2003 attendees at the latest.


That said, There is still much to learn from those parts, particularly from WinFS Beta 1, which includes a full SDK with Documentation.