Solving Silverlight_chainer.exe setup issues

Some of you may run into trouble while installing the Silverlight tools for Visual Studio 2008.
Here's a workaround to make things work:

1. Run the Silverlight_chainer.exe
2. Do not close the error window
3. Browse your startup disk at the root level. There is a directory which name looks like a GUID. Open that directory to find a Silverlight 2.0 tools.
   
4. Run the following apps (in this order)
1. Silverlight 2.0.exe
2. Silverlight_sdk.msi
   
3. VS_SilverlightTools_Beta1_Setup.exe
4. VS90-KB949325.msp

Normally, this should solve the problem.
Have fun!

Silverlight 2.0: a brighter day...

Ronny Jordan's "Brighter day"is one of my favorite tunes.
Well, today I'm doing a flashback to a previous post I did about missing controls of Silverlight 1.0.
I had a very interesting discussion with the Silverlight Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. It is likely we will have ALL of our missing controls in an upcoming version, I mean very very soon.

This leads me to cancel the development of my prototypes...
Please come back later for more news.

[SILVERLIGHT] Missing controls

Silverlight is wonderful....
But the lack of important controls like TextBox, Button, Grid, StackPanel and so on is a little bit confusing.

I'm quite sure that Microsoft will fix this in a future release, probably with the upcoming Silverlight 2.0.


Meanwhile, I've been starting a toolkit project to include those controls.
The roadmap for version 1.0 will be:

• TextBox
• Button
• RepeatButton
• RadioButton
• CheckBox
• StackPanel
• Grid

Though, this is a geek-only project, as we all know that Microsoft's controls will integrate better.

Stay tuned for more info.