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Did you open the project in VS2010 and later in VS2008 again? Or is this happening for new projects in VS2008?
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By default, Visual Studio uses UTF encoding with the BOM; however, you can save it to a different encoding if you'd prefer. When you go to the Save As dialog, you can expand the Save button to see the 'Save with Encoding' option. This will prompt you for a different encoding, and I think one of the Unicode options will ...
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I'm a bit concerned that the templates never showed up. Did you do a custom install of VS? Is the Web Development feature installed (required for Silverlght)? I'm guessing so since you referred to the web node for project templates, but I want to double check.
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When you're doing Directory.GetFile("<Path>"), the <Path> is pointing to the client machine, not the server. You can't access the client filesystem directly, and to get the information from the server you need to have a web service to talk to from your Silverlight app.
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First two things I can think of to check:
Project templates are not installed - can you check that they show up under <Visual Studio Install Path>\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Silverlight\1033?
Templates are installed but not registered - if the files above are present, try opening a VS command prompt as elevated and run ...
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Silverlight project templates should be under their own node, e.g. C# -> Silverlight instead of C# -> Web. Is this node missing?
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You need to install the developer runtime - you don't have the necessary debugging components installed. You can find it here.
If you need to do this on other machines, check out my blog post about offline installation here. It shouldn't be quite so hard.
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You can run the two versions of Visual Studio side by side.
Expression Blend 3 does have a couple issues with Silverlight 3 projects/solutions from VS2010 Beta 2; they are working on an update to make the two compatible. You can work around the issues, since they're mostly caused by the web project hosting the Silverlight ...
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Blend will continue to have more designer-esque features, such as the storyboard and animation support. Visual Studio's designer does provide some of the tools that a designer may use, but it is intended to target the needs of a developer.
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Between Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3, we hid that option and always generate the test page in the hosting web project if you're creating a new Silverlight project.