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I'll keep this blog post short and sweet because the more I think about it the more I get close to the verge of exploding.
Here's my situation: I had Visual Studio 2008 Professional installed. From scratch, clean install. Everything works great, all is good in the Microsoft world of .NET. Yay me!
Now, I have a particular need to compile and run code that will only work on .NET 3.5 SP1 so I install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1... and it completely and totally prevents me from building any WPF application. I can create a brand new WPF application with File->New and immediately hit Build and I will see the same failures.
It complains about 'SplashScreen' and then complains about failures in 'MarkupCompilePass1' task.
So I completely uninstall Visual Studio 2008 and the Service Pack 1 artifacts. Great. All is good, right? NOPE. I re-install VS 2008, then re-install the service pack and I get the EXACT. SAME. PROBLEM.
So what's my status: I need to write WPF code and the service pack itself has barred me from building WPF applications.
What in the [CENSORED] is Microsoft thinking?!?! I've found some forum posts on Microsoft Connect that confirm that I am not the only person with this problem.
If you have encountered this problem and have managed to fix it without doing a complete re-wipe of your OS (I need an on-the-hardware install of VS, what I'm doing can't be done inside a VM), PLEASE let me know the solution.
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Published August 24, 2008 Reads 2,440
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About Kevin Hoffman
Kevin Hoffman, editor-in-chief of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer's Journal, is Technical Chair of iPhone Developer Summit. He has been programming since he was 10 and has written everything from DOS shareware to n-tier, enterprise web applications in VB, C++, Delphi, and C. Hoffman is coauthor of Professional .NET Framework (Wrox Press) and co-author with Robert Foster of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed. He authors The .NET Addict's Blog at .NET Developer's Journal.
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