I have came through a problem that i forget that i have install silverlight chainer and start installing it again. then during the installation i opened the control panel to check i have previously installed silverlight chainer or not, i found that it has
already been installed so i canceled the progressing silverlight chainer installation. then i started visual studio 2008 and opened the current projects of silverlight and "The project type is not supprted by this installation " error message is given by visual
studio. if i am creating a new silverlight application then "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error occured. Please help me to solve this problem.
zeeshan86
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silverlight chainer problem
Jun 20, 2008 03:31 PM | LINK
I have came through a problem that i forget that i have install silverlight chainer and start installing it again. then during the installation i opened the control panel to check i have previously installed silverlight chainer or not, i found that it has already been installed so i canceled the progressing silverlight chainer installation. then i started visual studio 2008 and opened the current projects of silverlight and "The project type is not supprted by this installation " error message is given by visual studio. if i am creating a new silverlight application then "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error occured. Please help me to solve this problem.
venablc85
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Re: silverlight chainer problem
Jun 20, 2008 04:03 PM | LINK
Hi Zeeshan86,
You're not the only person having these problems, read this thread, the second post has a link to a very good blog which may be able to help you...
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/17677/59164.aspx#59164
saying that it didnt work for me and i ended up reinstalling my OS and starting from scratch
But like i said check out that blog, it describes a few errors and has good detailed instructions on fixing them
BradleyB
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Microsoft
Re: silverlight chainer problem
Jun 20, 2008 04:17 PM | LINK
The project type not supported error is usally resovled by running devenv /resetskippkgs
Hope this helps,
Brad
zeeshan86
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Re: Re: silverlight chainer problem
Jun 20, 2008 06:03 PM | LINK
plz give me the full path to write devnev/resetskippkgs
BradleyB
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Microsoft
Re: Re: silverlight chainer problem
Jun 20, 2008 07:28 PM | LINK
Open a command prompt and run this:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /resetskippkgs
The path could be different depending on where you installed VS.
Hope this helps,
Brad
brodie
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Re: silverlight chainer problem
Jun 25, 2008 04:09 AM | LINK
I ran the devenv /resetskippkgs and it fixed the problem I was having with VS2008 (no SP1 beta) trying to open Silverlight 2 Beta 2 projects.
NOTE: I had previously tried the Silverlight_Tool_Fixup.zip vbs script located at http://weblogs.asp.net/bradleyb/archive/2008/06/18/fixing-setup-errors-installing-silverlight-tools-beta-2.aspx, and then reinstalled Silverlight 2 Beta 2. When this didn't work I read about the /resetskippkgs flag, ran it, and now I'm back in the world of Silverlight goodness.
Very happy! Thanks.
dipmajumder
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Re: Re: Re: silverlight chainer problem
Nov 10, 2009 04:27 PM | LINK
Thanks