Can't install Silverlight Developer runtime

Question

I have installed VS 2010 professional with full installation in Windows 7.

I have installed Silverlight 5.0 separately.

When I create silverlight application, i

Answer 1

For Visual studio 2013 and windows 10, make sure you debug/start your application with Microsoft internet explorer. Debugging with Edge will result in the following error message: Unable to load the Silverlight developer runtime.

Answer 2

If you install Visual Studio 2012 or (now) release version you will overwrite .NET Framework 4.0 with 4.5 and apps created with 4.0 will need to be upgraded. .NET 4.5 is an in-place replacement to 4.0 not a side-by-side.

Answer 3

Service Pack 1 needed for Silverlight 5.

I suggest to(based on my recent experience)

Uninstall everything "Microsoft Silverlight" that you have Make sure SP1 installed SP1 Install Silverlight 5 tools from here: SL5

Answer 4

After installing a new version of Silverlight you have to install the "Developer" version, too. With this, You can open your projects in Visual Studio without any problem.

x86: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=146060

x64: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=229324

Answer 5

Here is a link for Visual Studio SP1 Installer

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23691

Here is the link for Visual Studio SP1 Direct Download

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=210710

Feel your comfort

Or else Download Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate Version (Direct Link)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=247147

Answer 6

I was getting the same error. The problem was that the link that Visual Studio was giving was for the 32 bit version, and I am running 64 bit. Some kind of error mentioning that when failing the install would have been nice...

Here is the link for the 64-bit version of Silverlight 5 developer tools:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=229324