Are you still waiting for Microsoft to release Silverlight 4 for Visual Studio 2010 RC?

I'm not anymore :)

You could completely use Silverlight 4 bits for VS 2010 Beta 2 with VS 2010 RC. Alex Sorokoletov has found how to install Silverlight 4 on VS 2010 RC.

There is no magic and steps are simple as One, Two, Tree:

1. Download Silverlight 4 Tools For VS 2010 Beta 2
2. Run installation. The dialog window saying what Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 should be installed will appear. Don’t hit the cancel button!
3. Locate folder named like ‘bfb0032a835647b79718f26ba81d3392’ on root of some of your hard drives. And copy it’s content to some other location.
4. Open ParameterInfo.xml and comment out <BlockIf DisplayText="Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 ..."> section (it is placed on lines 13-41)
5. Now you are ready to SPInstaller.exe to install Silverlight 4 Tools
6. One additional step is required to force Visual Studio to use Silverlight 4 instead of Silverlight 3 for visual designers. To do it open regedit and search for DesignerPlatforms. Under this key go to Silverlight and change SilverlightHost value to ‘4.0’.

You should be happy now :)

If you need RIA services then load patched Microsoft.RiaServices.Tools.dll assembly and copy it to ‘c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\RIA Services\v1.0\Libraries\Server’ folder.

And then open GAC management console by [Win+R] -> assembly ->[Enter]. Remove old one assembly and add new one.

Restart Visual Studio and you are done.

Thanks for Alex!

If you can’t attach the debugger to a Silverlight application opened in new browser window using HtmlPage.Window.Navigate method then do the following:

1. Go to Debug –> Attach to Process
2. In Attach to Process dialog select process which host Silverlight application
3. Click on “Select…” button under “Attach to:” section
4. In Select Code Type window select “Debug this code type” option and uncheck all checkboxes except Silverlight
5. Click OK –> Attach

Uhh, it's a hot day: first the visual studio 2010 beta 2 has came out and now JetBrains released first public available build of the ReSharper 5.0 :)

Here is download page: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+5.0+Nightly+Builds

What's New in ReSharper 5.0

• External Sources
• Structured Patterns
• Project Refactorings
• Call and Value Tracking
• Internationalization
• Visual Studio 2010 support (coming soon)
• ASP.NET markup support
• ASP.NET MVC support
• Intellisense improvements
• Bookmarks
• Inspect project/folder
• Upgrade-to-LINQ analysis
• Native NUnit support
• Xml Formatting

Here you could find more info about R# 5.0 futures: ReSharper 5.0 Overview

Hi, now it is just 20th of October... but VS 2010 beta 2 will be available only at 21th :(

Can't wait? Ok, I have time machine for you:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 — ENU (Web Installer)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151233

You are welcome! :)

Important: Remove ASP.NET MVC 1.1 beforeinstallation. If it does not want to uninstall saying "You first need to uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for MVC 1.1, then uninstall ASP.NET MVC 1.1 (this is the runtime component)" then delete next registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ASP.NET\MVCTools 1.1 (if you run 64bit OS then that key will be under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node node)

P.S.

If you have problems with TFSObjectModel during uninstalling VS 2010 beta 1 then just uninstall it from Programs and Futures manually ;)

It's a great day! :)