Continue reading »]]> I had some trouble today with Blend 4 which was continuously crashing on launch, even after an uninstall and re-install of the program.

Thankfully, I found a very helpful forum post on MSDN which helped me fix the issue.

I have recently installed the Developer Preview of Visual Studio 11 and it turns out that there are some compatibility issues with version 4.5 of the .Net Framework with this preview release.

In order to fix the issue you can run the following commands in your command prompt (don’t forget to run as an administrator);

The workaround is to run:
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\ngen uninstall “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Expression\Blend 4\Microsoft.Expression.Framework.dll”
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\ngen uninstall “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Expression\Blend 4\Microsoft.Expression.Blend.dll”
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\ngen uninstall “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Expression\Blend 4\Microsoft.Expression.Project.dll”

If “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Expression\Blend 4\Microsoft.Expression.WindowsPhone.dll” is present (for scenarios like Blend V4 SP1 or future releases), please also run:
%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\ngen uninstall “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Expression\Blend 4\Microsoft.Expression.WindowsPhone.dll”

You can find the original post here….. http://connect.microsoft.com/Expression/feedback/details/690246/blend-4-crashes-on-startup

Hope this helps some of you out if you are having the same problem.

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Continue reading »]]> I keep up to date with releases to the .Net Framework and other related technologies such as Silverlight, but it can sometime be hard to remember what was released when and in what version.  Ian Blackburn has posted a .Net Release Summary on his blog with a simple table attempting to clarify the content of various .Net versions.

I hope Ian keeps this list up to date as I have no doubt it would be quite a useful reference in the future when we hit .Net 10!

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Continue reading »]]> Just registered for the 2008 MSDN Roadshow in Manchester on 1st May

At last years event, I particularly enjoyed a demo around WPF/E, which ofcourse has now been released as Silverlight.

Well, this years event looks to be even better.  Below is the event summary from the Microsoft web site;

Microsoft is pleased to present the 2008 Technical Roadshow where MSDN will be visiting 5 cities across the UK to share with you the latest technologies and developments in our platform.  It you are a developer who is interested in Microsoft technologies, then come along to one of these free all day events where you will learn how to apply the technologies in your everyday life.  We will be covering Silverlight – Microsoft’s browser plug-in that allows rich web applications to be developed quickly and easily, ASP.Net as well as the ADO.NET entity framework.  We have our own expert presenters who will be available for questions throughout the day.  We will also have representation from  the community to provide additional support and some fun activities.  If you have attended a Roadshow event before, you will know the value of this day out of the office and if it is your first time, you will be amazed at how much you will learn – all this without a sales pitch!

Really looking forward to this year, especially the demos around Silverlight 2.0.

I will post an update about how the event was once I have attented and I will try and get some photos as well.

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