Visual Studio 2008 WPF Problems

Question

So I'm trying to learn WPF and my home and school setup in Visual Studio is totally different. I have no controls, no properties, no intellisense on the XAML page on my home computer.

I looked around for this problem and I saw something with regedit, and I have the correct info there...still nothing though. Here are two print screens so you can see what I'm talking about.

Home Computer
School Computer

Clearly, the school computer will be a lot easier to learn on...but most of my learning and coding will be done outside of school.

Edit 1

When trying to run devenv /resetskippkgs I get the following error:

Package Load Failure

Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Xaml' has failed to load properly (GUID = xxxx). Please contact package vendor for assitance. Apllication restart is recommended due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future? You may use 'devenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading.

Answer 1

I think this might be your solution - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vswpfdesigner/thread/88bc758f-e190-440a-a244-709ca646bc77

Answer 2

Service Pack 1 fixed it.