diff --git a/eng/Version.Details.xml b/eng/Version.Details.xml
index 0388a65a9e23..092d021323e2 100644
--- a/eng/Version.Details.xml
+++ b/eng/Version.Details.xml
@@ -258,26 +258,26 @@
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/runtime</Uri>
       <Sha>55eee324653e01cf28809d02b25a5b0894b58d22</Sha>
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.2">
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/windowsdesktop</Uri>
-      <Sha>283bd6a3f37196bacde89cb76c5157593021cc59</Sha>
+      <Sha>fed5f2a4e66fe00be8d108e8e153ec3bed34941e</Sha>
       <SourceBuildTarball RepoName="windowsdesktop" ManagedOnly="true" />
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="VS.Redist.Common.WindowsDesktop.SharedFramework.x64.10.0" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.2">
+    <Dependency Name="VS.Redist.Common.WindowsDesktop.SharedFramework.x64.10.0" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/windowsdesktop</Uri>
-      <Sha>283bd6a3f37196bacde89cb76c5157593021cc59</Sha>
+      <Sha>fed5f2a4e66fe00be8d108e8e153ec3bed34941e</Sha>
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Ref" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.2">
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Ref" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/windowsdesktop</Uri>
-      <Sha>283bd6a3f37196bacde89cb76c5157593021cc59</Sha>
+      <Sha>fed5f2a4e66fe00be8d108e8e153ec3bed34941e</Sha>
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="VS.Redist.Common.WindowsDesktop.TargetingPack.x64.10.0" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.2">
+    <Dependency Name="VS.Redist.Common.WindowsDesktop.TargetingPack.x64.10.0" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/windowsdesktop</Uri>
-      <Sha>283bd6a3f37196bacde89cb76c5157593021cc59</Sha>
+      <Sha>fed5f2a4e66fe00be8d108e8e153ec3bed34941e</Sha>
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.1" CoherentParentDependency="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Ref">
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1" CoherentParentDependency="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Ref">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/wpf</Uri>
-      <Sha>cbaeca87f0bd676b1ecd869338cf78b22f5295f7</Sha>
+      <Sha>d73dd1dbd908398cef7f50e57812e55b90ed3676</Sha>
     </Dependency>
     <Dependency Name="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Ref" Version="10.0.0-alpha.2.24563.16">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore</Uri>
@@ -394,13 +394,13 @@
       <SourceBuild RepoName="test-templates" ManagedOnly="true" />
     </Dependency>
     <!-- For coherency purposes, these versions should be gated by the versions of winforms and wpf routed via windowsdesktop -->
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.Dotnet.WinForms.ProjectTemplates" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24560.1" CoherentParentDependency="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64">
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.Dotnet.WinForms.ProjectTemplates" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24566.1" CoherentParentDependency="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/winforms</Uri>
-      <Sha>fae358b66661ccf60d44119bf2e0cc87ce8c75d4</Sha>
+      <Sha>98c761f4d9863f99cdb48ac9e87feef01d5c595e</Sha>
     </Dependency>
-    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.DotNet.Wpf.ProjectTemplates" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.1" CoherentParentDependency="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64">
+    <Dependency Name="Microsoft.DotNet.Wpf.ProjectTemplates" Version="10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1" CoherentParentDependency="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Runtime.win-x64">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/wpf</Uri>
-      <Sha>cbaeca87f0bd676b1ecd869338cf78b22f5295f7</Sha>
+      <Sha>d73dd1dbd908398cef7f50e57812e55b90ed3676</Sha>
     </Dependency>
     <Dependency Name="Microsoft.Web.Xdt" Version="9.0.0-preview.24522.2">
       <Uri>https://github.com/dotnet/xdt</Uri>
diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index 007bd7b96c61..8489589698c8 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup>
     <!-- Dependency from https://github.com/dotnet/winforms -->
-    <MicrosoftDotnetWinFormsProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24560.1</MicrosoftDotnetWinFormsProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>
+    <MicrosoftDotnetWinFormsProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24566.1</MicrosoftDotnetWinFormsProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup>
     <!-- Dependency from https://github.com/dotnet/test-templates -->
@@ -157,9 +157,9 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup>
     <!-- Dependencies from https://github.com/dotnet/windowsdesktop -->
-    <VSRedistCommonWindowsDesktopSharedFrameworkx64100PackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.2</VSRedistCommonWindowsDesktopSharedFrameworkx64100PackageVersion>
-    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRuntimewinx64PackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.2</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRuntimewinx64PackageVersion>
-    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.2</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion>
+    <VSRedistCommonWindowsDesktopSharedFrameworkx64100PackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1</VSRedistCommonWindowsDesktopSharedFrameworkx64100PackageVersion>
+    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRuntimewinx64PackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRuntimewinx64PackageVersion>
+    <MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1</MicrosoftWindowsDesktopAppRefPackageVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup>
     <!-- Dependencies from https://github.com/nuget/nuget.client -->
@@ -258,8 +258,8 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup>
     <!-- Dependencies from https://github.com/dotnet/wpf -->
-    <MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.1</MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion>
-    <MicrosoftDotNetWpfProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24563.1</MicrosoftDotNetWpfProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>
+    <MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1</MicrosoftNETSdkWindowsDesktopPackageVersion>
+    <MicrosoftDotNetWpfProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>10.0.0-alpha.1.24568.1</MicrosoftDotNetWpfProjectTemplatesPackageVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
   <PropertyGroup Label="Template versions">
     <!-- 10.0 Template versions -->
diff --git a/src/SourceBuild/content/repo-projects/Directory.Build.targets b/src/SourceBuild/content/repo-projects/Directory.Build.targets
index 06f949160d7f..f988dcd168cf 100644
--- a/src/SourceBuild/content/repo-projects/Directory.Build.targets
+++ b/src/SourceBuild/content/repo-projects/Directory.Build.targets
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
     <RepoArtifactsShippingPackagesDir Condition="'$(ReferenceOnlyRepoArtifacts)' == 'true'">$(ReferencePackagesDir)</RepoArtifactsShippingPackagesDir>
     <RepoArtifactsNonShippingPackagesDir Condition="'$(ReferenceOnlyRepoArtifacts)' != 'true'">$([MSBuild]::NormalizeDirectory('$(ArtifactsNonShippingPackagesDir)', '$(RepositoryName)'))</RepoArtifactsNonShippingPackagesDir>
     <RepoArtifactsNonShippingPackagesDir Condition="'$(ReferenceOnlyRepoArtifacts)' == 'true'">$(ReferencePackagesDir)</RepoArtifactsNonShippingPackagesDir>
+
+    <RepoArtifactsDir>$([MSBuild]::NormalizeDirectory('$(ProjectDirectory)', 'artifacts'))</RepoArtifactsDir>
+    <RepoArtifactsPackageCache>$([MSBuild]::NormalizeDirectory('$(RepoArtifactsDir)', 'sb', 'package-cache'))</RepoArtifactsPackageCache>
+
     <!-- Pass location for packages -->
     <BuildArgs>$(BuildArgs) /p:SourceBuiltShippingPackagesDir=$(RepoArtifactsShippingPackagesDir)</BuildArgs>
     <!-- Trim the trailing slash as it breaks argument parsing on Windows if this is the last argument. -->
@@ -557,7 +561,7 @@
   <Target Name="CopyInnerBuildRestoredPackages"
           Condition="'$(IsUtilityProject)' != 'true' and '$(DotNetBuildSourceOnly)' == 'true'">
     <ItemGroup>
-      <_InnerPackageCacheFiles Include="$(ProjectDirectory)artifacts/sb/package-cache/**/*" />
+      <_InnerPackageCacheFiles Include="$(RepoArtifactsPackageCache)**/*" />
     </ItemGroup>
 
     <!-- Retries can be necessary due to file locking when parallel builds are enabled and multiple repos
@@ -572,11 +576,11 @@
 
   <Target Name="MoveDotNetBuildLogs"
         Condition="'$(IsUtilityProject)' != 'true' and
-                    Exists('$(ProjectDirectory)artifacts')">
+                    Exists('$(RepoArtifactsDir)')">
     <ItemGroup>
-      <LogFilesToMove Include="$(ProjectDirectory)artifacts/**/*.log" />
-      <LogFilesToMove Include="$(ProjectDirectory)artifacts/**/*.binlog" />
-      <PrebuiltReportsToMove Include="$(ProjectDirectory)artifacts/sb/prebuilt-report/*" />
+      <LogFilesToMove Include="$(RepoArtifactsDir)**/*.log" />
+      <LogFilesToMove Include="$(RepoArtifactsDir)**/*.binlog" />
+      <PrebuiltReportsToMove Include="$(RepoArtifactsDir)sb/prebuilt-report/*" />
     </ItemGroup>
 
     <!-- Move the build logs -->
@@ -595,7 +599,7 @@
           Outputs="$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)CleanupRepo.complete"
           Condition="'$(IsUtilityProject)' != 'true' and
                      '$(CleanWhileBuilding)' == 'true' and
-                     Exists('$(ProjectDirectory)artifacts')">
+                     Exists('$(RepoArtifactsDir)')">
     <!--
       Some repositories (WinForms) use source generators that open files manually and keep file handles open on the compiler server (CsWin32).
       These source generators are written incorrectly (a source generator should never do IO itself),
@@ -604,6 +608,7 @@
       Don't fail the build when shutdown returns a failure.
     -->
     <Exec Command="$(DotnetTool) build-server shutdown --vbcscompiler"
+          EnvironmentVariables="NUGET_PACKAGES=$(RepoArtifactsPackageCache)"
           IgnoreStandardErrorWarningFormat="true"
           IgnoreExitCode="true" />
 
@@ -612,7 +617,7 @@
     </PropertyGroup>
 
     <ItemGroup>
-      <ObjFilesToCopy Include="$(ProjectDirectory)artifacts/**/project.assets.json" />
+      <ObjFilesToCopy Include="$(RepoArtifactsDir)**/project.assets.json" />
     </ItemGroup>
 
     <!-- Make a copy of project.assets.json files -->
@@ -621,7 +626,7 @@
           Condition="'@(ObjFilesToCopy)' != ''" />
 
     <ItemGroup>
-      <DirsToDelete Include="$([System.IO.Directory]::GetDirectories('$(ProjectDirectory)artifacts'))" />
+      <DirsToDelete Include="$([System.IO.Directory]::GetDirectories('$(RepoArtifactsDir)'))" />
 
       <DirsToDeleteWithTrailingSeparator Include="$([MSBuild]::EnsureTrailingSlash('%(DirsToDelete.Identity)'))" />
       <DirsToDeleteWithTrailingSeparator Remove="$(BuildObjDir)" />
diff --git a/src/SourceBuild/content/repo-projects/wpf.proj b/src/SourceBuild/content/repo-projects/wpf.proj
index c70e7133379b..ccbb6575b2d0 100644
--- a/src/SourceBuild/content/repo-projects/wpf.proj
+++ b/src/SourceBuild/content/repo-projects/wpf.proj
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <BuildArgs>$(BuildArgs) $(FlagParameterPrefix)warnAsError $(ArcadeFalseBoolBuildArg)</BuildArgs>
     <!-- TODO setting Platform shouldn't be necesary: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/4314 -->
     <BuildArgs>$(BuildArgs) /p:Platform=$(TargetArchitecture)</BuildArgs>
-    <BuildArgs>$(BuildArgs) /p:BuildWithNetFrameworkHostedCompiler=false</BuildArgs>
+    <BuildArgs>$(BuildArgs) /p:BuildWithNetFrameworkHostedCompiler=true</BuildArgs>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>