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Hi,
I have learned that MCE under vista will not be shipped as a separate edition but as a feature under vista home premium and ultimate. However, the SDK for development of applications etc are going to be released a single compilation.
My question is, If on a WPF enabled machine I develop an application using the WPF APIs, how will it run on vista versions which dont have MCE runtime.
Thanks in advance

Hi,
I have learned that MCE under vista will not be shipped as a separate edition but as a feature under vista home premium and ultimate. However, the SDK for development of applications etc are going to be released a single compilation.
My question is, If on a WPF enabled machine I develop an application using the WPF APIs, how will it run on vista versions which dont have MCE runtime.
Thanks in advance

My question is, If on a WPF enabled machine I develop an application using the WPF APIs, how will it run on vista versions which dont have MCE runtime.

OK - WPF is available to all editions of Vista, and will be backported for download to XP SP2 and Windows Server System 2003 (all editions). The idea is, if a machine doesn't have the WPF components, they'll be prompted to download them. If it does, then it'll run.
If you're trying to develop a WPF application for a non-MCE edition of Vista/XP/Windows Server, then it'll simply not work. You could either put a bit of code in which detects whether you have MCE installed or not, and then display a dialog warning if you don't have it installed.
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Hi,
I have learned that MCE under vista will not be shipped as a separate edition but as a feature under vista home premium and ultimate. However, the SDK for development of applications etc are going to be released a single compilation.
My question is, If on a WPF enabled machine I develop an application using the WPF APIs, how will it run on vista versions which dont have MCE runtime.
Thanks in advance