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4 replies. Latest Post by Melt16 on July 1, 2009.
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Melt16
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07-01-2009 9:08 AM |
I uninstalled my VS 2008, and then re-installed it. Since then Silverlight projects are not seen as a supported project type in Visual Studio. I have read many posts on this, and followed steps to remove any Silverlight installations, the SDK, and the SilverLight tools for Visual Studio, and used Windows Installer cleanup etc, and manually removed any registry entries. I then re-installed the Silverlight 2 SDK and the Silverlight Tools for VS, but when I try to open a Silverlight 2 project I still get the error "This project type is not supported by Visual Studio. Has anyone got any other ideas? Thanks
jay nana...
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07-01-2009 9:17 AM |
Have you tried to create new Silverlight project? any luck with that?
07-01-2009 9:46 AM |
It sees Silverlight as a project type when I go to create new project. But when I try this I get a popup 'Object Reference not set to instance of an object'
07-01-2009 10:06 AM |
You can do this. To Visual Studio 2008 command prompt icon in start menu, Right click and Run As Administrator and then run this line:
devenv /setup
It will fix. As it has fixed in my case previously.
07-01-2009 10:42 AM |
Hi Jay, I have just uninstalled and re-installed everything Visual Studio related on my computer. I was shocked to find that nothing helped and my whole re-install was a waste of time. I then tried your solution and I can't believe it works! Thanks very much for the post.
Silverlight 2 projects no longer works in Visual Studio 2008 SP1