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Hi, Visual Studio 2008 isn't supported for previewing XAML files - this very old feature was removed for the final release of the Silverlight 3 tools.

Silverlight 3 and 4 do support XAML preview in Visual Studio 2010.

Jeff Wilcox
Thanks for the answer but I also get exception when I run the application so I thougt the exception were connected.
Silverlight Beginner
The stack trace above includes a 'CiderSilverlightImageHost' which is never used at runtime... is it possible there's a separate error at runtime [different trace]?
Jeff Wilcox