If Windows Communication Foundation .svc files show up in your browser as the textual content of the file rather than launching your service on XP SP2, (e.g. you get <@ServiceHost ...etc...>) your IIS Metabase may have been corrupted by previous beta installation of WCF. Download the CleanIISScriptMaps utility from the .netfx3 website and run it to fix the problem. Get it here: http://wcf.netfx3.com/files... Thanks to the blog entry of Wenlong Dong for this...

The latest version of Orcas is available as a VPC here: http://www.microsoft.com/do... The problems is that the image ships with the operating system requiring immediate activation and a password that seems to have suffered a character translation; both of which can keep you locked out for a very long time. The password to use for the Administrator account is P@ssw0rd (not P2ssword as the documentation tells you). The...