Blog on the Bog

I finally managed to get the Silverlight 3 beta installed and working on my work computer yesterday after facing a few issues.

The first issue I faced was needing to do an offline install since the Silverlight Tools installer was blocked from downloading the required files. This was easy enough and the process can be found on Tim Heuer’s blog.

After that I thought I would be away laughing but when I loaded up Visual Studio I had no syntax highlighting on XAML files and all these errors saying “Package ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.Xaml’ has failed to load… blah blah… You may use ‘devenv /resetskippkgs’ to re-enable package loading.”

Running the ‘devenv /resetskippkgs’ didn’t seem to do a lot and it was about here that things all started to go horribly wrong. I uninstalled Visual Studio, tried the express editions, reinstalled Visual Studio, uninstalled Silverlight 3 beta, tried installing Silverlight 2… but it failed. Somewhere along the way Silverlight 3 wasn’t uninstalling completely and I managed to find Bob Pomeroy’s Blog on how to manually clean a bad Silverlight install.

So after deleting a few registry keys, a program files folder and a half finished install I was all set to try again.

This time everything installed sweet as and everything’s working as it should.