I have VS2008 with .NET 3.5 SP1 (vs has SP1 too of course). I have loaded the latest silverlight tools.. and it went through and un-installed any beta stuff..
No errors installing, and everything else in SP1 seems ok. In fact silverlight itself (i.e. when you select the silverlight project).
Just when I try to drop a silverlight component onto the design surface, I get the crosshair symbol, but it will not let me essentially "draw" the component.
The strange thing is if I use Expression Blend, then I can of course drop components onto the design surface in Blend and then code behind in VS2008…
Just wondering if anyone else has come across this… of course I realise I could un-install the whole lot of VS2008… but it takes ages to install again if this is something quick and easy to resolve??
Many thanks in advance.
David
Best Answer
The visual studio 2008 silverlight desing surface is a read only view. You will need expression blend to do that.