Error When Installing Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010

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I'm in the process of migrating from my old 32-bit Windows XP development machine to a new one that's running 64-bit Windows 7. I have the same stuff (VS 2010 + Silverlight Tools 4) installed and working on my old development machine.

I get a build error on my new development machine in VS 2010 when trying to build my F# Silverlight 4 project:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft F#\v4.0\Microsoft.FSharp.Targets(138,9): error : F# runtime for Silverlight version v4.0 is not installed. Please go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177463 to download and install matching F# runtime
Done building project "FCBuySideSilverlight.fsproj" -- FAILED.

I follow the link provided in the error, and download MS Silverlight Tools 4: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177463 However, when I try to it, I get this strange error:

MS Silverlight Tools 4 Language Error

All of my installations are in the English language, so it's very strange. What's more is that the link they provide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177432) doesn't actually go anywhere useful.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

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VS SP1 has pre-installed silverlight tools. Just update IDE. – vortexwolf

2 Answers

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I had to install the WebPI application tool + Visual Web Developer Express (here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/). I could then install Silverlight Tools 4 through the WebPI installer. I also installed Visual Studio 2010 SP1 using WebPI, so that may have also done it (as @vorrtex suggested in the comment above).

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This previous StackOverflow question explains it: Cannot install silverlight 4 tools on visual studio 2010 sp1

Basically, it is now provided with SP1 assuming you have installed the Web Developer Tools.

You shouldn't use WebPI (in this case) cause that will just download far too much shit (like VS2010 Express (W-T-F!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) + more bloat :(