Primordial Ooze

Easy tryout for Avalon

Wow, Avalon is a cinch to get running on a clean machine. You'll need Windows XP with Service Pack 2 to start.

If you download the CTP, you can find a avalon.msi installation file. Run this on a client and you might get a message like this:

Ah, well that's easy to fix and you don't even need access to the Avalon CTP. Just point your browser to the .NET Framework Beta 1 and rerun an Avalon sample.

If you forgot to install the Avalon CTP, you'll get a FileNotFound exception. Installing avalon.msi fixes this, of course. However, when you run an app like Chris Anderson's XamlPad (now available via ClickOnce), you  might get this?

If you'll remember, I use the Royale XP theme and you need to copy this file:

C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Luna\PresentationFramework.Luna.NormalColor.FxStyles

to

C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Royale\PresentationFramework.Luna.NormalColor.FxStyles

and rename the ".Luna" to .Royale". Then, you'll get the full app that looks just like it does on Chris Anderson's site:

http://www.simplegeek.com/default.aspx?date=2004-11-20T00:00:00