Andrew Gunn's Blog: Silverlight - The project type is not supported by this installation

Thursday, 20 March 2008

Silverlight - The project type is not supported by this installation

Launch a command window, navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio x\Common7\IDE (where x is the version number) and run:

devenv /setup

If you're using Visual Studio 2008, try downloading the latest Silverlight Tools.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...: Thanks buddy, this sorted me out 100%, I assume it tells studio to recheck for modules/addin etc.; 22 March 2008 at 02:15
Mike said...: Many thanks

After a reinstall all SL project would not load until I ran your fix

Thanks again

Mike; 20 April 2008 at 12:06
yamroll said...: I can't tell you how much I love you. I've spent the past 5 hours uninstalling and reinstalling components to try and get my Silverlight projects to load again... and THIS is all it took.

Thank you thank you thank you!; 4 June 2008 at 18:59
Anonymous said...: this solution is suits for sharepoint project as well!

Thanks!; 22 September 2008 at 16:17
Mahesh said...: Thanks..Thanks very much..this worked for me..i wasted a day for this.; 13 November 2009 at 10:04
Mahesh said...: Thanks..Thanks very much..i wasted a day for this..now everythings working fine.; 13 November 2009 at 10:04
Mickey said...: Thanks a ton bro, already wasted a day on this issue.; 1 April 2010 at 18:39
Anonymous said...: OK I'm the guy this isn't working for. Any other ideas?

I have VS 2010 Ultimate and I downloaded Silverlight like 20 minutes ago.

I have also tried: 'devenv.exe /resetskippkgs' with no love.; 24 July 2010 at 22:00
Saru said...: Thanks a lot man !!! Thanks in tones; 9 September 2010 at 19:40
Anonymous said...: Great!
I spent severeal night on it and what i needed was just a fucking command line :D
Thank you so much!; 7 December 2010 at 20:09
Anonymous said...: I don't understand how do you run devenv /setup ?

There is a devenv.exe in the folder? I click on it, launches VS... so what?; 11 February 2011 at 00:03
Anonymous said...: Thanks. It's works.
In my case (Windows 7) i had to run command line as administrator.; 18 February 2011 at 19:46
Faizel Faker said...: Thanks a lot man. Ive also been re-installing like a mad man. Worked for me.; 23 May 2011 at 19:41