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Debugging and SDK Installation Issues with Silverlight 2 Final |
This Tuesday, Microsoft released what we’ve all been waiting for: the final version of Silverlight 2.
Of course we were prepared and already had migrated our Silverlight application to the Release Cancidate 0. And we were lucky: there have been no changes made to the Silverlight API, that would break our code. However the installation of the Silverlight 2 RC1 SDK brought some problems and a solution along, which I would like to share:
After the first time I installed the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the Blend 2 Service Pack 1, Visual Studio told me that the Silverlight debugger component had not been installed. So I uninstalled the Silverlight Tools (but not the Blend 2 Service Pack) and reinstalled it. My reward was another strange error thrown by Visual Studio: The Silverlight 2 SDK has not been installed. So I went on not only uninstalling the Silverlight Tools but also the Blend 2 Service Pack and only reinstalled the Silverlight Tools again. And this time it worked. I was able to compile and debug our Silverlight application successfully. Afterwards I installed the Blend 2 Service Pack again and still everything worked.
Sometimes, software can show strange behaviours. If my experiences helped you installing the Silverlight Tools on your machine, I would be glad, if you let me know this via a comment.
Hang in there and don’t let software get you down!
