Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Installation Tips and advice for Configuring the development Environment for Silverlight 2.0 beta 1

Hello,
Quite a few folks here in India have e-mailed me informing of the various errors/queries they get while installing/configuring the development environment for Silverlight 2.0.

Let me summarize the Steps to help you to easily Install Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 development environment:
  1. Uninstall all previous versions of Silverlight 1.0, 1.1, Silverlight 1.1 Tools for Alpha or any of the Silverlight SDKs, including the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 SDK.
  2. Download Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 from link, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&displaylang=en (Download & save it locally)
  3. Extact the individual installers run this command: silverlight_chainer.exe /extract
    This will extract the following installers, along with other support files.
    Silverlight.2.0.exe
    VS90-KB949325.msp
    silverlight_sdk.msi
    VS_SilverlightTools_Beta1_Setup.exe
  4. It critical that you install these components in the order listed above. (Silverlight 2, KB949325, SDK, Tools)
  5. To install KB949325 w/o being prompted for media run this command:
    msiexec /p VS90-KB949325.msp /L*vx VS90-KB949325.log REINSTALL=ALL
    Note: this command will require administrative rights and it does not add the KB to Add/Remove Programs.
  6. To list these Silverlight tools in Visual Studio's Help->About dialog and to be able to uninstall these tools from Add/Remove Programs (ARP), install the patch again using the following command:
    msiexec /p VS90-KB949325.msp /L*vx VS90-KB949325-2.log ADDLOCAL=KB947520
    Finally run the VS_SilverlightTools_Beta1_Setup.exe installer to complete the Silverlight Tools installation.

I found the link http://weblogs.asp.net/bradleyb/archive/2008/03/06/installation-tips-for-sivliverlight-tools-beta-1-for-visual-studio-2008.aspx very very helpful to provide you with - Installation Tips for Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008.

Cheers, ~Neville (http://nevilledubash.blogspot.com/)

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