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VS2008 SP1: Issues Changing Your Installed Features

We’ve had many users report issues when trying to change their installed features in VS2008...

Date: 07/30/2010

Silverlight 4 Upgrade Breaks Silverlight Debugging Experience

A design change in the Silverlight 4 installer now causes older developer runtime to be upgraded...

Date: 04/22/2010

Finding the Visual Studio Activity Log

Sometimes when something goes wrong in Visual Studio, you might see the following dialog: We’ve had...

Date: 02/26/2010

64-Bit Team Build Fails on Silverlight Projects (and How to Fix It)

If you have a Silverlight project under source control, and try to build it on a 64-bit Team Build...

Date: 01/22/2010

MSBuilding Web Site Projects doesn’t Copy Silverlight XAP (and How to Fix It)

If you have a Silverlight application that is consumed by a Web Site Project in Visual Studio (not...

Date: 11/02/2009

Refactoring Root namespace Breaks Silverlight Applications (and How to Fix It)

One scenario that happens fairly often for new apps is to create a new project and then part way...

Date: 10/28/2009

Silverlight 3 Support in VS2010 Beta 2

This evening I put up a blog post on my team’s blog to summarize some of the changes that have come...

Date: 10/27/2009

VS2010 Beta 2 installation issue with Silverlight 3 SDK

Some folks have already started trying out the latest VS2010 release, and have been receiving...

Date: 10/21/2009

Debugging Silverlight Applications in Out Of Browser Mode

On an internal mailing list yesterday, someone asked how to debug their Silverlight 3 application as...

Date: 07/28/2009

Upgrading to Silverlight 3 Tools for VS2008 (RTW)

With the release to web (RTW) of Silverlight 3, a lot of folks will [hopefully] be upgrading to take...

Date: 07/11/2009

Setting up Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

There’s been some confusion with setting up Silverlight development the VS 2010 Beta 1 release,...

Date: 07/06/2009

Using Silverlight 3 beta’s Transparent Platform Extension and Out of Browser Features in Dev10 Beta 1

In Dev10 Beta 1, which was just released, there isn’t any way to enable the Transparent Platform...

Date: 05/20/2009

Making the Silverlight-Enabled WCF Service in Dev10 Beta 1 Work with Silverlight 2

In Dev10 Beta 1, the Silverlight-enabled WCF Service template is the version used for Silverlight 3...

Date: 05/20/2009

Understanding Issues Installing Silverlight 3 via Web Platform Installer

With the release of the Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta at MIX last week, you can now install any of...

Date: 03/24/2009

Switching Your Visual Studio Environment Between Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3

With the release of Silverlight 3 Beta, you’ll may want to try out the new features. Unfortunately,...

Date: 03/18/2009

Want Help (files) With Silverlight 3?

In Silverlight 3, the help files are shipping as a separate CHM file, instead of integrating with...

Date: 03/18/2009

Silverlight 3 Tools Issue: New WCF Template is Broken by Silverlight 2 SDK

In Silverlight 3, we’ve introduced support for binary message encoding for WCF services, which...

Date: 03/18/2009

Silverlight Tools 2 Issue: Hosting Pages Broken from Beta 2 to RTW

A fair number of people are having issues with the ASP.NET control used to host Silverlight...

Date: 11/06/2008

Silverlight Tools RTW is out! (for English)

The RTW release of Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 is out!  There are no functional changes from...

Date: 10/28/2008

Silverlight Tools RC1 released for all languages

Today we’ve released the remaining languages of Silverlight Tools RC1 for Visual Studio 2008. ...

Date: 10/21/2008

Silverlight Tools Installation Speed bumps?

There’s been a few questions that come up between all of the Silverlight 2 releases, especially with...

Date: 10/16/2008

Silverlight Tools Tip: Offline Installation

Starting with RC0 and continuing through our RTW release of Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio,...

Date: 09/29/2008

Silverlight Tools Tip: How to customize the default Hosting Web Project Choices for Silverlight Applications

Currently in Silverlight Tools Beta 2, by default when you create a new Silverlight Application, Web...

Date: 08/15/2008

Silverlight Tip: Reflecting Objects Horizontally or Vertically using ScaleTransform

While working on a Silverlight application, I wanted to have two instances of a class which faced...

Date: 08/01/2008