Always see NullReference exception in designer with all silverlight business applications in visual studio 2010

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Paul Hutchinson picture Paul Hutchinson · Nov 18, 2011 · Viewed 13.8k times · Source

Starting with the most simple case.

If I press "File->new project->silverlight business application" it opens up to MainPage.xaml saying the message attached at the bottom of this post.

It also does the same thing to any silverlight business application that exists in sourcesafe - this is the first time I've personally needed to work on this technology.

Any advice would be very much appreciated I really need to get started on a project and I feel quite disabled to not have the designer.

Thanks in advance.

An Unhandled Exception has occured

Click here to reload the designer

Details:

System.NullReferenceException Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.Windows.Design.Platform.SilverlightMetadataContext.SilverlightXamlExtensionImplementations.d__8.MoveNext() at MS.Internal.Design.Metadata.ReflectionProjectNode.BuildSubsumption()
at MS.Internal.Design.Metadata.ReflectionProjectNode.SubsumingNamespace(Identifier identifier) at MS.Internal.Design.Markup.XmlElement.BuildScope(PrefixScope parentScope, IParseContext context) at MS.Internal.Design.Markup.XmlElement.ConvertToXaml(XamlElement parent, PrefixScope parentScope, IParseContext context, IMarkupSourceProvider provider) at MS.Internal.Design.DocumentModel.DocumentTrees.Markup.XamlSourceDocument.FullParse(Boolean convertToXamlWithErrors) at MS.Internal.Design.DocumentModel.DocumentTrees.Markup.XamlSourceDocument.get_RootItem() at Microsoft.Windows.Design.DocumentModel.Trees.ModifiableDocumentTree.get_ModifiableRootItem() at Microsoft.Windows.Design.DocumentModel.MarkupDocumentManagerBase.get_LoadState() at MS.Internal.Host.PersistenceSubsystem.Load() at MS.Internal.Host.Designer.Load() at MS.Internal.Designer.VSDesigner.Load() at MS.Internal.Designer.VSIsolatedDesigner.VSIsolatedView.Load() at MS.Internal.Designer.VSIsolatedDesigner.VSIsolatedDesignerFactory.Load(IsolatedView view) at MS.Internal.Host.Isolation.IsolatedDesigner.BootstrapProxy.LoadDesigner(IsolatedDesignerFactory factory, IsolatedView view) at MS.Internal.Host.Isolation.IsolatedDesigner.BootstrapProxy.LoadDesigner(IsolatedDesignerFactory factory, IsolatedView view) at MS.Internal.Host.Isolation.IsolatedDesigner.Load() at MS.Internal.Designer.DesignerPane.LoadDesignerView()

Answer

Marvin Bland picture Marvin Bland · Jan 18, 2012

If you run into this issue, a possible cause is due to you having Microsoft SilverLight version 5.0 installed on your pc versus that of 4.0 (Version: 4.0.50826.0). Remove the copy of SilverLight 5.0. Install the version located at the following link - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=146060 DO NOT INSTALL version 5.0 IF YOU HAVE SDK 3 AND 4. INSTALL MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT 4.0

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