Moving from Silverlight 4 Beta to RC - Part 2

by XAML Team | Comments 5

In my previous post I talked about updating my development environment from Silverlight 4 Beta to Silverlight 4 RC (release candidate). After updating, I opened the solution for my Task-It project and found that several things were broken. I would've been surprised if it just worked as is!

What disappointed me is that after spending a decent amount of time searching the web, I could not find information telling me what I needed to update/change...and wouldn't it be nice if there was a wizard to update it for you?

What changed?

I wish I had made notes along the line of each of the things I found, but here are a few that I can recall:

  • In the Web project, the following dll's no longer exist:
    • System.Web.DomainServices.dll
    • System.Web.DomainServices.LinqToSql.dll (if you are using the Entity Framework I believe that one is System.Web.DomainServices.EntityFramework.dll)
    • System.Web.Ria.dll
  • In the Silverlight project:
    • System.Windows.Ria.dll

I'm not positive which new assemblies need to be referenced for your project, but I'm going to list the ones I think you need. One way to verify is to create a new Silverlight application with support for WCF RIA Services and see which dlls are included.

  • In the Web project:
    • System.Data.Entity.dll
    • System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.EntityFramework.dll (I've moved from LinqToSql to EntityFramework, so I'm not sure which one the LinqToSql stuff comes from)
    • System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Hosting.dll
    • System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Server.dll
  • In the Silverlight project:
    • System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.dll
    • System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.Web.dll
    • System.ServiceModel.Web.Extensions.dll

Where are these dll's?

These all live in either the Silverlight or RIA Services subdirectories under:

        C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs

Of if you are on a 64-bit machine like me:

        C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs

Wrap up

Good luck, and I hope this helps to get you back in business!

If anyone finds anything that I've missed, please enter a comment and I'll update the post accordingly.

Posted in: silverlight-4 silverlight

5 Comments

Ben Hayat
I'm going through a nightmare at a client's site to upgrade a SL3 to SL4 RC that was done by someone else...
..Ben
Ross
Best of luck Ben, doesn't sound like fun.

Thanks for the link Waahnsinn. Where did you find this? If I were Microsoft, I'd put a very obvious link to it on the SL4 page on silverlight.net...and on their WCF RIA Services site (unless it's there and I just missed it).

Ross
Ori Almog
The LinqToSql stuff is in the ria toolkit only fyi
ProStudent
Hi,

Great document find Waahnsinn!

I agree it would have been nice to know about this on the Silverlight 4 page for the RC downloads.  I would rather use Linq to SQL than the ADO.NET Entity model, and it was painful trying to get the RC up and running with all my previous 2010 beta test applications.

ProStudent

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