Microsoft Development Environments
Posted by Nat Tuck
In spite of my attempts to avoid it, I’ve been doing some Windows development and evaluation of Microsoft technologies. Getting a Windows development environment together is quite a challenge. Initially, I thought that it was more a C/C++ issue than a Microsoft issue - putting together a solid C/C++ dev environment with an IDE and non-platform libraries is non-trivial anywhere. But… that turned out to not be entirely accurate.
My experience with Microsoft development so far is well summarized by this error message:
An Error Has Occurred:
Silverlight Tools cannot be installed because one or more of the following conditions is true:
1. Visual Studio 2008 RTM is not installed.
2. The Web Authoring feature of Visual Studio is not installed.
3. A previous version of the Silverlight Runtime is installed.
4. A previous version of the Silverlight SDK is installed.
5. The Visual Studio Update KB949325 is installed.
6. A previous version of Silverlight Tools is installed.
To continue, please install or uninstall the appropriate products and run this installer again.
