Fixing Setup Errors Installing Silverlight Tools Beta 2

Published Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:17 PM

What's the problem?

There are two predominate issues that are preventing a successful installation of Silverlight Tools Beta 2.

  1. Silverlight_chainer.exe fails attempting to uninstall KB949325
  2. Mismatched binaries when both Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta  and Silverlight Tools Beta 2 are installed.

These two problems account for the vast majority of installation problems developers are running into.

What's the solution?

To help address these two specific problems I've created a .vbs script that attempts to detects and repairs both of these issues.

Download "Silverlight_Tools_Fixup.zip" attached to this post.

Unzip "Silverlight_Tools_Fixup.vbs" from Silverlight_Tools_Fixup.zip

Run the following:

  1. Silverlight_Tools_Fixup.vbs
  2. Silverlight_chainer.exe

So what happened?

When run Silverlight_Tools_Fixup.vbs will:

  1. Detect and uninstall KB949325
  2. Detect all advertised features in VS and repair them. (Advertised features result in mismatched binaries.)

    *Vista non-admin scenarios will require running the script from command prompt that was started using "Run as administrator".
    *You may also be prompted for original media when uninstalling KB949325.

Getting Help?

Be sure to check out the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 readme for known issues.

You can also get additional help from the "Installation and Setup" forum here: http://silverlight.net/forums/13.aspx

by BradleyB
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Comments

# BradleyB's WebLog said on Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:29 AM

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has just been released! Checkout silverlight.net/GetStarted   Silverlight

# aspnetx said on Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:44 PM

在安装完相关开发工具后,创建Silverlight相关项目如果出现如下错误:Couldnotloadtype'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Silverlight.IV...

# Mike Snows Silverlight Blog said on Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:25 PM

For development, I will be using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. You will need to install the Silverlight

# Stefan Olson said on Friday, July 11, 2008 3:46 PM

Still fails for me with an Msi API Error...

# Problemas al instalar Silverlight tools beta2 para VS2008 « Usabilidad y Accesibilidad said on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:48 AM

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# BChase said on Thursday, August 14, 2008 3:52 PM

After many hours of trying to get VS 2008 SP1 installed...and another hour trying to update Silverlight to work with SP1...I finally have them installed.

But....this caused all my videos to no longer work with Silerlight.  

And...all debugging is wiped out even with a debug build...

I cannot delete the SP1 and move back -- it crashes on the "remove" feature.

Make sure you have all your code on a backup machine (as I do thankfully) without SP1!

# CapCai Blog » Visual Studio 2008 - Silverlight Tools Beta 2 Errors said on Monday, August 18, 2008 2:33 AM

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# John said on Saturday, December 27, 2008 6:45 PM

I get an error message "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable"  I am not able to use Silverlight to view my movies like I used to.  I have tried system restore also but without success.

# Michael Fischer said on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:55 AM

I am not able to install Silverlight. The error message only says, "unable to Install".

# Michael Fischer said on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:02 PM

I need CLEARinstructions to install Silverlight and CLEAR error messages.

# nick_zelelt said on Sunday, May 17, 2009 11:49 PM

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