How do I get the async CTP working on Windows 8 with VS'11 for Silverlight 5?

Question

Hi,

I wanted to play around with Silverlight 5 on Visual Studio '11, but it is not yet supported. The await and async keyword work in a Console App. I've tried to install the Visual Studio Async CTP for Visual studio 2010 (SP1 refresh) by performing the regex hack, but it won't install my files. I probably just need this AsyncCtpLibrary_Silverlight.dll file.

Is this somewhere on the system already? Or do I really need to have the package installed to get that?

 

Thanks,

Erik

Answer 1

I'm not aware of anyone getting Async CTP to work with Silverlight 5 RC; when the Async CTP was released, SL 5 was in Beta (and did work). So, I think you're out of luck, at least until SL5 is supported on VS2011.

I certainly would not apply Async CTP to VS2011 at all. I'm not sure why you'd try.

There's several conflicts in what you're attempting: VS2011 (developer preview) introduces async; Async CTP modifies the VS2010SP1 compiler to include async and adds Task types to Silverlight; Silverlight 5 (RC) adds Task types to Silverlight. None of these are actually released or officially supported technologies.

        -Steve

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Answer 2

I'm not aware of anyone getting Async CTP to work with Silverlight 5 RC;        -Steve

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I just installed Silverlight 5 RC and now Async CTP (which worked great with Silverlight 5 Beta) no longer works.  This is a serious problem for me as my project depended on Async CTP.  Does ANYONE have an answer for this? 

 

Answer 3

The Async CTP has been updated to work with the Silverlight 5 RC.  You can download it from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.