Cannot install silverlight 4 tools on visual studio 2010 sp1

Question

I\'ve installed Visual Studio 2010 (fresh install), then applied the SP1. Now I\'ve tried to install the silverlight 4 tools, but i\'m getting a strange error message :

Answer 1

I got tired of many threads discussing that and no real solution, at least o pass through the error complaining the VS2010 version/language.

I downloaded the Silverlight4_tools.exe, and started from command line passing the option /X

SilverLight4_Tools.EXE /X

It will ask me a place to extract the files. I set a dir, and from there I run:

silverlight_sdk.msi
RiaServices.msi

After that I could able to remove the old

using System.Web.Ria;
using System.Web.Ria.ApplicationServices;

and replace them with

using System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Hosting;
using System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Server.ApplicationServices;

Answer 2

Install SP1 and then try to create a silverlight project. It displays an error. There is a link on the dialogue box. When you click it, it installs a something other than Silverlight4_Tools.exe. It actually says something about silverlight 5 ... but silverlight 5 is not added. If you install silverlight 5 ... you can still choose silverlight 4.

Answer 3

I had the same problem. Installer of silverlight4 tools has file ParameterInfo.xml (if you have only .exe file then unzip it). It describes system requirements.

In my situation installer requires version of VS2010 "10.0.30319", but in register was other version (10.0.40219). I edited version in register, installed tools and wrote first version in register.

May be your problems are not the same (not version of VS). Check other requirements of this file.

Answer 4

Maybe a tip for some of us. Install or repair MSXML6. We were struggling getting the SL4 projects loaded in VS2010 SP1. Uninstalled all SL4 components... reinstalled SP1... recovered VS2010... and all other combinations, nothing worked. Installing the MSXML6 solved our issue.

Answer 5

The VS 2010 Service Pack 1 has SilverLight Toolkit install as default. You don't need to install the SilverLight tool anymore.

Answer 6

Further to https://stackoverflow.com/a/9146742/427684 I think this is what he was referring to

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=168436

Which currently takes you here;

Microsoft® Silverlight® 5 Tools for Visual Studio® 2010 SP1