Silverlight 3 - Visual Studio Tools

Question

Hello,

I am trying to get started doing some Silverlight development. I am interested in learning about the out-of-browser support. I can create and run Silverlight 3 applications just fine. I have confirmed that I have Silverlight 3 instead of Silverlight 3 Beta. I have been able to confirm this because my API list includes Application.InstallStateChanged instead of Application.ExecutionStateChanged.

However, I do not have the option to enable my application to run offline in Visual Studio. I can see this option in this blog post (http://johnpapa.net/silverlight/updated-silvertwit-code-for-msdn-magazine/). Unfortunately, I do not have the option shown or the Reduce XAP size option. I have downloaded the Visual Studio tools from here (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd&displaylang=en).

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Did you have any previous version of the Silverlight tools or SDK installed before installing the V3 tools?

Answer 2

One thing might be that your Silverlight developer runtime got corrupted/overwritten. Try installing it once and see if it solves... http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx

Answer 3

It looks like John Papa is using a new version of visual studio possibly the VS2010 beta.

Try this tutorial instead

http://wildermuth.com/2009/03/18/Enabling_Out-of-Browser_Support_in_Silverlight_3

or

http://blogs.msdn.com/katriend/archive/2009/07/10/silverlight-3-out-of-browser-applications.aspx

Answer 4

Corrupted Install It looks like a corrupted install. Try uninstalling and then see Allen Chen's advice here: http://silverlight.net/forums/t/83226.aspx including: Silverlight3_Tools.exe /x:c:\temp /u to manually extract the SL 3 files and c:\temp\SPInstaller.exe to verify the tools install.

Use Blend Also, If you have Blend 3 installed (preview here) you can enable Out of the Browser inside of Blend. See Project->Silverlight Project Options.

Answer 5

HI all, Is it possible to use Visual Studio 2005 and silverlight 3.