Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 - Placing a Control Issue

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Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 - Placing a Control Issue

What is the issue with the Silverlight Tools for VS2008? I can't seem to place controls on the designer surface. This didn't work for me on two different machines. Do you have to tweak the XAML to be able to place the first control?
Cursor stays a compass-like-cross when over the surface. Are you supposed to drag-n-drop controls or draw them?

Screenshot (as far as I got) here

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The designer is read only. Your have to use expression blend until vs 2010

Aaron Fischer 2008-12-06 02:34:42

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As pointed out by Aaron Fischer, for the time being the VS Silverlight designer is read-only. I'd just like to add that you still can drag-and-drop controls from the toolbox into your XAML markup. That's especially helpful when you add a control from an external assembly - say, a DataGrid - because it automatically creates the reference to the assembly and maps the appropriate namespace.

Boyan 2008-12-06 03:24:06

Could not figure out how to get the drag-n-drop to work. oh well.

tyndall 2008-12-12 02:08:47

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Peter McGrattan 2009-02-12 04:39:53

weird. this is all I see - http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii199/brunotyndall/screenshot1.png and http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii199/brunotyndall/screenshot2.png

tyndall 2009-02-12 04:54:45

Do you have to install Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 after Expression Blend for all this stuff to work? Maybe I'm getting screwed by good old install order problems.

tyndall 2009-02-12 04:56:18

In the first screenshot you are editing a Silverlight 2 project as a WPF Application, in the second screenshot you've created a Silverlight 1 site. Have a look at this image (http://silverlight2blogpost.s3.amazonaws.com/step1.png) and note Silverlight 2 Application is highlighted.

Peter McGrattan 2009-02-12 05:12:33

For the correct install order have a look at this page (http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/) under the first heading 'Get Started Building Silverlight 2 Applications', have you installed Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1?

Peter McGrattan 2009-02-12 05:13:52

Cool!!! +1 and Answer. Thanks for helping me finally nip this in the bud. Going to save me hours of stress at work.

tyndall 2009-02-12 05:35:56

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