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From Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate back to Beta 2

If you’ve played around with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC), you sure have noticed that it’s pretty fast. E.g. the WPF- and Silverlight-Designers come up quickly and much faster that in Visual Studio 2008.

But for now there are some reasons to wait before installing Visual Studio 2010 RC:

  • Silverlight 4 Beta is not supported. Silverlight 4 will be supported with the next public drop of Silverlight 4, what means when the Silverlight 4 RC is available. A date for that hasn’t been specified yet by Microsoft.
  • The available Preview Version for .NET 4.0 of Expression Blend doesn’t work with Visual Studio 2010 RC. It only works with Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010. A new version will be available soon as the Expression Website says, but no one knows what "soon" means.

The second point I just noticed now. And so I decided to go back to Beta 2 cause I’ve a session about Model-View-ViewModel this week at BASTA! Spring in Darmstadt.

To go back to Beta 2, make sure you uninstall everything of the Release Candidate. After I’ve uninstalled Visual Studio 2010 RC, I had additionally to remove .NET Framework 4.0 from Programs in Control Panel. Tip: Order the installed programs by date, then you see what you’ve to uninstall pretty good.

After I’ve installed the Beta 2 again, everything worked fine. But I got an error when compiling my WPF-project telling me the following:

"GenerateResource" task failed unexpectedly. System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL ‘FileTracker.dll’ …”

After some search I found a connect-entry on microsoft.com with the solution. My folder "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework” contained a “v4.0” directory additionally to the "v4.0.21006" directory installed with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. After deleting the additional folder that has a higher number than v4.0.21006 (it’s the RC ;-)), the Beta 2 works fine again and I can compile everything as expected. Find the connect-entry that pointed me to the solution here:  https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=501894&wa=wsignin1.0

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One Response to “From Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate back to Beta 2”

  1. Nikolai Manek Says:
    March 13th, 2010 at 9:05 am

    Hi there,

    just found a nice way of installing Silverlight 4 beta for Visual Studio 2010 RC.

    http://blog.andrew-veresov.com/post/Enable-Silverlight-4-Tools-in-Visual-Studio-2010-Release-Candidate.aspx

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