Is there a fix for VS 2008 after the Silverlight 4 windows update?

Question

I installed a windows update for Silverlight on my Win 7 64-bit PC yesterday, and today when I started VS 2008, I got the following error:

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Package Load Failure

Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Silverlight.SLPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Silverlight, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {CB22EE0E-4072-4AE7-96E2-90FCCF879544} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application 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.

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Is there an update for the VS integration as well?

Here's the information on the Windows Update-based Silverlight update:

Update for Microsoft Silverlight (KB982926)

Download size: 8.2 MB

Update type: Important

This update to Silverlight improves security and reliability, and adds a variety of performance and functional enhancements including support for web-conferencing, printing support and improved support for video, networking and rich internet applications. This update is backward compatible with web applications built using previous versions of Silverlight.

More information: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=185925

Help and Support: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105787

Answer 1

Take a look at the blog about a June update to Silverlight. Consider downloading and installing the Windows Developer Runtime that Tim provides a link to.

The update may have installed the standard runtime but dev machines need this developer version of the runtime.