{"id":664,"date":"2009-11-07T02:41:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2009-11-07T02:43:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:43:48","slug":"silverlight-3-tools-installation-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/silverlight-3-tools-installation-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight 3 Tools Installation &#8211; Unable to Detect Visual Studio 2008 SP1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to install Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 but I keep getting a message saying that I don&#8217;t have SP1 installed even though I do have it installed, and it won&#8217;t allow me to install it. I tried to uninstall everything and reinstalled Visual Studio 2008 and updated it to Service Pack 1 but the same error keeps showing up whenever I executing the Silverlight 3 Tools installation. Here&#8217;s the error message I keep receiving:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Installation Requirements:<\/p>\n<p>Build 9.0.30729.XX of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 must be installed before installation can continue.\u00a0 See &lt;A HREF=&#8221;http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=122094&#8243;&gt;http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=122094&lt;\/A&gt; for download information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-665\" title=\"Silverlight 3 Tools installation error\" src=\"http:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ss1.PNG\" alt=\"Silverlight 3 Tools installation error\" width=\"536\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ss1.PNG 536w, https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ss1-300x258.PNG 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done much research to resolve this problem but I couldn&#8217;t find any helpful information. However, I&#8217;ve been able to find some hints here and there and I&#8217;ve came up with the solution after playing around with it for awhile. But first I should clarify few things before I continue with the solution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m using an early version of Windows 7 Professional since it was released 3 weeks ago by the time I&#8217;m writing this post.<\/li>\n<li>I have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Professional Edition and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed.<\/li>\n<li>The VS2008 build is: 9.0.21022.8 RTM which is the latest update I can get from Windows Update and it cannot detect any more updates for the VS2008.<\/li>\n<li>I have Expression Studio 3 already installed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, so now to overcome the installation error of Silverlight 3 Tools follow up these few steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=9442B0F2-7465-417A-88F3-5E7B5409E9DD&amp;displaylang=en\">here<\/a>. The download file name should be: Silverlight3_Tools.exe by default.<\/li>\n<li>Download WinRar from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/download.htm\">here<\/a>. Winrar will be used to extract Silverlight3_Tools.exe since it is an archived file. The reason I mentioned Winrar here is because I&#8217;m not sure if there is any other application that supports extracting EXE files. Feel free to use any other app that could do the job.<\/li>\n<li>After installing Winrar or any equivalent application, right click on Silverlight3_Tools.exe and extract the archive file.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, go to the location where you have extracted the file and execute the file VS_SilverlightTools_Setup.exe to install the Silverlight 3 Tools.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to install Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 but I keep getting a message saying that I don&#8217;t have SP1 installed even though I do have it installed, and it won&#8217;t allow me to install it. I tried to uninstall everything and reinstalled Visual Studio 2008 and updated it to Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,20],"tags":[68,67,49,66,151,69,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}