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If you are a developer or designer who is creating cutting edge user interface experiences using Microsoft Expression Blend you've just found a great resource!  The purpose of this site is to share our experience with this brand new product.  As with any new piece of software there is a ton to discover.  Bugs will be revealed and workarounds discovered, hopefully this can be a resource to share in the discovery process!

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 Visual Studio 2008 RTM....not working here...UPDATED Minimize
Location: BlogsSean Cullinan    
Posted by: Sean Cullinan 12/12/2007 12:55 AM

I installed VS 2008 RTM on my main development system over the weekend.  This system has not had any of the Beta components of the framework or of VS 2008.  I was doing all my development in Blend and VS 2005 with WPF extensions.  The VS 2008 install went smooth, but when I tried to create my first WPF project I got a "Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to restart" message.  This occurred when it tried to load the Window1.xaml file in the designer (which is what it does by default when you create a new WPF project).  Hence I have been unable to use VS 2008.  How disappointing.  I've been searching the web and come up with nothing.  If and when I get it working I will update what I did here.  If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to comment!

Update: I ran Aaron Ruckman's .Net Framework 3.5 validation tool and it came back with errors.  This led me to believe that the problem was with the .net 3.5 framework installation that was part of the vs 2008 install process.  I uninstalled .net 3.5, rebooted, reinstalled it, rebooted and this time no errors came back from the validation tool.  I then ran VS 2008 and it now works on my system!
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Re: Visual Studio 2008 RTM....not working here    By Karl on 12/11/2007 8:14 PM
Are you using Blend 2?
Re: Visual Studio 2008 RTM....not working here    By stiphy31 on 12/11/2007 8:17 PM
No Blend 2 on this machine, no beta or RC versions of anything as I keep my main production dev machine pristine until RTM's come out. I am investigating a possibility that the .net Framework 3.5 didn't install all the way. Andy Ruckman's .net 3.5 validator tool batch file (http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronru/archive/2007/11/29/net-framework-3-5-installation-validation-tool.aspx) was returning errors that .net 2.0 sp1 and .net 3.0 sp1 were not detetected. I'm currently uninstalling and reinstalling and will update shortly.

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