Comments on: More Silverlight, Visual Studio setup hassles

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:55:09 +0000

There are a number of computers here that all get the “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” when adding a WCF Service. The uninstall/install of the Silverlight tools has not been successful. Each time the size of the tools is 1.14 MB in the add remove.

By: Jimmer

Jimmer — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:38:59 +0000

U’re a star. Nice one

By: Tuizi

Tuizi — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:39:35 +0000

I don’t find: “Tools – Options – Source Control – Plug-in Selector” in Visual Web Development. No solution with Visual Web Development?

By: Greg Joyal

Greg Joyal — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:29:18 +0000

No luck here… I’ve tried twice uninstalling the Silverlight 2 Tools, Repairing Visual Studio and then installing the tools. No luck, it always reads 1.14 mb as the install size and gives me the “object reference” error. This is so frustrating… I’ve never even had the beta tools installed… argh.

By: Tim Apke

Tim Apke — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:42:48 +0000

That did the trick, and I’m using the RTW version of Silverlight 2.0. Many thanks!

By: Calvin J. Rodriguez

Calvin J. Rodriguez — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:57:58 +0000

I am having these same exact symptoms while installing Silverlight 2 RC. Unfortunately, the solution isn’t working for that release. Has anyone else encountered this problem with RC?

By: Vince Small

Vince Small — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:56:24 +0000

Just adding to the Kudos on the list. I banged my head against the wall trying to figure out why I couldn’t see the web services (I thought it was AntiVirus, setup, etc.).

Finally I discovered that I could see the web service in the same project, but not within the solution.

That is when I hit upon my search on Google and came across your blog.

Greatly appreciate you taking the time to post what you discovered as it saved me yet another day of frustration.

By: Tom Winans

Tom Winans — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:25:34 +0000

Nicely done. I can confirm that the solution described here also worked on Win 2K8.

Thank you for sharing and persisting this thread.

By: Claus

Claus — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:33:11 +0000

You saved my day. Removing the Microsoft.VisualStudio.ServicesProxy.dll file and then reinstalling Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 fixed the problem thx

By: Randy L

Randy L — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:43:15 +0000

Genius!