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Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

For those who are not aware, Visual Studio 2008 shipped this morning. The Silverlight tooling addon for Visual Studio, is version specific, so the addon for Beta 2 will NOT work with RTM. We are in the last throws of testing an update for the Silverlight tools, to work with VS 2008 RTM, and hope to release them in the next couple of weeks (depending on the amount of turkey consumed this Thanksgiving). We will post a link when this update is available.

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

I'm dying to write some Silverlight app with the final release. Please release it as soon as possible.

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

Oh no! I wish I'd seen this before I updated today. Thanks for the note -- and maybe you could post this caveat somewhere prominent between now and when the tryptophan wears off? ;)

For folks in my position... short of uninstalling RTM and finding and reinstalling a Beta 2 build, is there anything we can do to keep working on SIlverlight projects? (Unfortunately a VPC isn't an option right now)

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You could always just use Expression Blend for now, right? I know that's not a real substitute for Visual Studio, but it should serve as far as Silverlight Apps go.

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So what are we supposed to do if we had an ongoing project that we now have to stop work on? We eagerly awaited the 2008 RTM, downloaded the installation and spent 1/2 a day Wednesday getting it installed. Now you tell us we have to wait 'a couple weeks' before we can resume work on a very important project. You have got to be kidding!

At least there could have been some warning that perhaps you don't want to install the RTM if you are working with Silverlight. I find out when I have finished my update and start to reload my project from source control.

Now we will lose another day while our developers uninstall the RTM and go back to the Beta if we want to get any work done. This is ridiculous.

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I read this post too late myself and installed RTM. I tried to reinstall Beta 2, but it threw an error on installing the framework 3.5 step (although I previously uninstalled everything installed by the RTM through add/remove programs, including 3.5)

Was anyone else in the same boat and have some hints? I unfortunately do not have the exact error log message on me, but I can update tonight.

Thanks!

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

samsp

For those who are not aware, Visual Studio 2008 shipped this morning. The Silverlight tooling addon for Visual Studio, is version specific, so the addon for Beta 2 will NOT work with RTM. We are in the last throws of testing an update for the Silverlight tools, to work with VS 2008 RTM, and hope to release them in the next couple of weeks (depending on the amount of turkey consumed this Thanksgiving). We will post a link when this update is available.

The tools are now live on the download server at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=25144C27-6514-4AD4-8BCB-E2E051416E03&displaylang=en

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

Silverlight team, thank you so much for turning this around so quickly, especially giving the Thanksgiving circumstances! It's great to be back in action.

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

Downloaded and installed but I get an error when creating a new SL project :
"The project type is not supported by this installation."

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

Pluginbaby

Downloaded and installed but I get an error when creating a new SL project :
"The project type is not supported by this installation."

Make sure you have downloaded the right thing 'cause patch is working fine for me.

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

Yes I installed from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=25144C27-6514-4AD4-8BCB-E2E051416E03&displaylang=en

on VS2008 RTM.

I followed the beta 2 uninstall process from there:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/20/steps-to-uninstall-vs-2008-beta2-before-installing-the-vs-2008-final-release.aspx

Still have the problem, impossible to create a new SL project.

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Pluginbaby

Still have the problem, impossible to create a new SL project.

Make sure you create .NET Framework 3.5 project. I'm not sure if Silverlight 1.1 is supported by .NET Framework 2.0

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Pluginbaby
Still have the problem, impossible to create a new SL project.

I'm having the exact same problem too. Just intalled the silverlight tools for vs2008, but I get a "Project Type not supported" error whenever I create a new silverlight project. And yes its a 3.5 project.

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

Please try running devenv /resetskippkgs. You should run it from a Visual Studio command prompt [ start it with Admin Rights on vista]. This will tell VS to forget any package load failures that have occured before.

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

Hi All.

I too had the same problem. I just uninstalled the VS2008 tools for Silverlight and reinstalled the same. It fixed the problem.

Regards,

Sakthi Sai Saranyan

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

This fixed it. Thanks

Re: Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) RTM

devenv /resetskippkgs fixed my issue, thanks.