re: Possible error when building a Silverlight application on a computer that does not have XNA Game Studio 4.0 installed

Naresh — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:36:20 GMT

Thanks Merill Fernando and Aaron Stebner. this resolved my problem.

re: Possible error when building a Silverlight application on a computer that does not have XNA Game Studio 4.0 installed

Aaron Stebner — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:22:54 GMT

Hi Merill Fernando - Thanks for posting about your experience. It looks like the blog comment editor broke your link, so here is a link for people who read this post in the future - merill.net/.../fixed-the-target-getcopytooutputdirectorycontentprojectitems-does-not-exist-in-the-project.

I wanted to make a couple of comments about your experience:

1. Installing the standalone XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh is enough to fix this GetCopyToOutputDirectoryContentProjectItems error message if you are working with Silverlight projects. However, if you intend to create XNA games for Windows Phone, you will need to repair the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 because it installs some components that are not available in the standalone XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh.

2. Repairing the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 will install the XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh behind the scenes along with some other components. It will take a little longer, but I haven't seen a case yet where the repair didn't work. I'm not sure how to explain why it didn't work on your computer.

re: Possible error when building a Silverlight application on a computer that does not have XNA Game Studio 4.0 installed

Merill Fernando — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:11:29 GMT

In my case running a repair didn't work. Instead I installed the XNA Games Studio 4 Refresh (which was much quicker) just a 40MB download and install.

See <a href="merill.net/.../a>