Microsoft releases new WinFX preview

Posted on Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 23:30 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Microsoft Watch reports Microsoft has unveiled a new January Community Technology Preview test build of WinFX. It can be found here.

Microsoft describes WinFX as the next-generation Windows programming model. As such, WinFX includes a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) and exposes a set of class libraries and run-time components for developing and running applications. WinFX will be part of Vista and will also work with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

The new WinFX CTP includes enhancements to WCF, WPF and WF. The WCF updates include new service configuration editor and service trace viewer functionality, as well as support for REST-based services..

More details over here.

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