A Dullard's Guide

Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 3 SDK

2009-10-21T19:54:09Z

Visual Web Developer in Visual Studio 2010 has support in box for Silverlight 3 development and includes the Silverlight 3 developer runtime and Silverlight 3 SDK build 3.0.40818. Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 3 included SDK build 3.0.40624. Silverlight 3 SDK build 3.0.40818 cannot be installed on machine where build 3.0.40624 is already installed. If you install Visual Studio 2010 on a machine that already has build 3.0.40624 installed, Visual Studio 2010 will indicate...(read more)

Silverlight 3 Tools Prerequisite: Visual Web Developer

2009-07-17T22:11:41Z

Technorati Tags: Silverlight Tools , Visual Studio 2008 One of the prerequisites for Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio is the installation of the Visual Web Developer feature in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. This is separate from the free Visual Web Developer Express . If VWD is not already installed with your instance of Visual Studio, you can add the feature in Visual Studio's Maintenance Mode. Open Add/Remove Programs from the Control Panel. Right click on Visual Studio 2008 and choose Remove/Change....(read more)

Michael Jackson's Memorial

2009-07-07T09:47:00Z

1.6 million people registered for tickets to the service in which Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Usher, Lionel Richie, Kobe Bryant, Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer and Martin Luther King III will be participating honoring the King of Pop. But for those of you who won't be in Los Angeles to attend the Michael Jackson memorial, you can watch the service live in streaming HD using Silverlight at : http://inmusic.ca/news_and_features/Michael_Jackson...(read more)

Silverlight Tools Installation Error Codes

2009-03-19T22:00:00Z

[Edited to included updated Silverlight 3 Tools] When the Silverlight Tools fail to install, a log file is generated with error codes and messages. You can open this log file from the last screen of the installer. Or, you can find this log file in your %TEMP% directory under the name Silverlight Tools RTW_ [installation date and time]. html or Silverlight 3.0 Tools_ [installation date and time] .html Silverlight Tools Installer Web Platform Installer Open this log file and look at the end to find...(read more)

Upgrading a Web Project from Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3

2009-03-18T22:00:00Z

When upgrading a project from Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3 Beta, the asp:Silverlight and object tags in the solution's website are not modified. The minRuntimeVersion attribute of the object tag and the MinimumVerison attribute of asp:Silverlight control must be upated to 3.0.40307.0 <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="3.0.40307.0" ... <asp:Silverlight MinimumVersion="3.0.40307.0" ... In addition, if you use an object tag, make sure to update the link to install the newest runtime to:...(read more)

Switching from Silverlight 3 Tools to Silverlight 2 Tools

2009-03-18T20:00:00Z

Silverlight 2 projects can't be created with the Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008. When Visual Studio 2010 is released, you will be able to build both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 with the same IDE. But for the immediate future, you will need Silverlight 3 Tools to build Silverlight 3 projects and Silverlight 2 Tools to build Silverlight 2 projects. If you already have Silverlight 2 Tools installed, you can easily upgrade to Silverlight 3 Tools by running the Silverlight 3 installer....(read more)

ASP.NET Web Development Server Stops Working

2009-03-13T22:34:00Z

A Windows Defender and Microsoft Forefront Client Security signature file (1.53.256.0) was released at 8:45 PM (PST) on March 9, 2009 to address a Win32/PossibleHostFileHijack issue. This update modified the hosts file to prevent malicious redirection of websites. As a result, the entry for localhost may have been removed from the hosts file. When this entry is missing and a site is launched in the ASP.NET Web Development Server via Visual Studio, Internet Explorer displays “Internet Explorer cannot...(read more)

Trouble installing Silverlight Tools

2008-10-17T10:42:00Z

The reported issues with installation of Silverlight Tools has been relatively low. But, there have been a handful of issues reported on the Silverlight.net forums, mostly involving Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (which is required before installing Silverlight Tools). Some users have had trouble with the installation of SP1. For those people, I highly recommend hitting up the brilliant folks on the MSDN forum. They are far more experienced in the bigger Visual Studio installation experience....(read more)

Check This Box

2008-10-10T00:33:00Z

You've seen the checkbox on nearly all products from Microsoft. " I would like to improve the installation experience by sending anonymous feedback ." " I want to help make Microsoft software and services even better. " Checking the box is for opting-in to the Microsoft Customer Experience Program . A lot of people skip this step. Maybe they didn't notice the box. Maybe they are like my sister and believe that the information isn't really anonymous and Microsoft is collecting all kinds of private...(read more)

Installing Silverlight Tools RC0 Without English Visual Studio

2008-10-01T02:39:00Z

The release candidate for Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio is currently available for the English version of Visual Studio only. Users of non-English Visual Studio can still use this Silverlight Tools release candidate if they install the English version of Visual Web Developer Express with SP1 which is a FREE download. http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ Note, that installing Silverlight Tools RC0 on a machine with VWD Express SP1 ENU and VS 2008 SP1 non-ENU will allow Silverlight 2 development...(read more)

Silverlight Tools Release Candidate Now Available!

2008-09-26T07:55:00Z

The first release candidate of Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download. This package is an add-in for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 with SP1. The Silverlight Tools installer includes the following: Silverlight Tools RC0 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Silverlight Tools RC0 for Visual Web Developer Express with SP1 Silverlight 2 RC0 Developer Runtime Silverlight 2 RC0 Software Development Kit This release gives Silverlight developers an...(read more)

Silverlight Help in Visual Studio

2008-09-10T01:49:00Z

The Silverlight SDK comes with a large collection of help documents to help you get started writing Silverlight applications. These help documents are available online at MSDN . However, for those times you are doing development offline - maybe on a plane, maybe in a location without wifi - if you have the SDK installed, you can register this help collection with Visual Studio for offline access. 1. Open Visual Studio (you will have to open VS as an administrator in Vista). 2. In the Help menu, choose...(read more)

Problems Creating a New Silverlight Project after Tools Installation

2008-08-21T22:41:00Z

SYMPTONS When creating a new Silverlight project or opening an existing Silverlight project, you receive an error message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object or Package Load Failure CAUSE Visual Studio failed to load the dlls required by Silverlight Tools. RESOLUTION To resolve this issue, from a command prompt, run "devenv /resetskippkgs" (i.e. " Folder Path \Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /resetskippkgs)...(read more)

Silverlight Tools Must be Updated After Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

2008-08-11T19:00:00Z

Today, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was released. This service pack includes support for SQL Server 2008, new ADO.NET features such as the Entity Framework, improvements to the WPF designers, WCF templates for Silverlight projects, debugger support for the .NET Framework public symbols and source release, control improvements such as the DataRepeater for Windows Forms and Office 2007 Ribbons for C++, and several general updates for debugging and IntelliSense. SP1 also enhances the stability,...(read more)

Blackjack, Silverlight 1.0 Edition, Part I

2008-05-16T23:45:00Z

One of my favorite HDi apps was blackjack , so I have been just itching to turn it into a Silverlight application. Now, this one wasn't quite so easy. My goal in writing blackjack for HDi originally was to take advantage of the timing element and remove as many references to style as possible from the script. So, in turning this into a Silverlight app, I found myself putting a lot of markup references back into the script. When the application first starts and a reference to the container is first...(read more)