With the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), I decided that it was time to load it.  I’m really interested in Silverlight’s capabilities.  I think it may be the final answer to the problems of developing web applications in HTML and JavaScript.  Flash comes close, but ActionScript isn’t much differnt from JavaScript.  With Silverlight 1.1, I can write a web application in C#, not just an HTML/Javascript emitter (like ASP).

Great idea, but Orcas wasn’t cooperating.  I got an error -2147467259 when trying to install.  I played with the installer settings, no good.  I downloaded the Pro version instead of the Standard version, no good (and why do the installers for these two versions look so different???).  I checked the web for days, and no answers.  I even found a Microsoft feedback issue around this error. MS said that they couldn’t repeat the error and closed the issue  .

Finally, on Saturday, someone said to check if the Web tools were already installed, and if so remove them.  Well, I didn’t have Web tools installed, but I did have the CTP of Expressions Web Developer installed. So, I uninstalled that (and a bunch of foreign language dot net stuff).  Bingo, Orcas is now installed.  Now, I just have to figure out how to do anything useful .

8/5/2007 7:31:48 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)      Comments [0]  technology