Hi,
I have a strange problem when working with silverlight 3 projects in Web Developer Express 2008. Mainly, I cannot show the design view of a XAML file. Also the XAML files (markup) are shown as plain text files (No Syntax coloring & No Intellisense). However I can write an application that is compiled and run successfully.
I have the following installed on my machine:
- Windows XP SP3
- Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1
- SL3 Requirements
I had a few problems while installing SL3 SDK & Tool for VS. I repeated the process many times until the installation succeeded. The main problem was in the "SL Tools for VS" installation where I used to get an error in the middle. My workaround was to extract the MSI file and manually run the VWDxxx installer from the extracted files.
Is this the cause of the problem? Kindly advise as it's impractical to work w/o Intellisense.
Thnak you