Installing the Microsoft .NET RIA Services (July CTP) in a “non English” VS 2008

If you try to install the  Microsoft .NET RIA Services July CTP on a “non English” you could run into problems.
You will get the Message:

The following required components are missing.
Microsoft Silverlight 3 Beta SDK
Microsoft Silverlight 3 Tools.

Here is how to solve it:

Prerequisites: Silverlight SDK 3 and Silverlight Tools must be installed prior the following steps (no matter which language version)

a.) Download the Microsoft .NET RIA Services July CTP
--IMPORTANT: Choose “Save as” (not run)
--Choose a directory which you are able to find later.

b.) Open a Command Prompt and change into the directory where the download exists. 

c.) enter: msiexec /i RiaServices.msi NOCHECK=true
--this starts the Windows installer – and it tells the installer not to check anything
--the RIA Services will install
--ATTENTION: Silverlight SDK 3 and Silverlight Tools must be installed prior this step 

d.) Prepare the Visual Studio Templates for you language (Info)
--in the directory <%programfiles%>\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\LANGUAGE\Silverlight
------LANGUAGE is CSharp or VisualBasic in this case
--you will find a folder 1033 with two zip files (BusinessApllication and RIAServicesLibrary)

e.) Copy the templates (BusinessApllication.zip und RIAServicesLibrary.zip) from 1033 to your Language directory
--There should already be a directory with a different number than 1033 – that’s you language directory

f.) Close all running VS 2008 instances(!!)

g.) Execute: devenv /installvstemplates ausführen
--this tells VS to search for new templates and to integrate them

Die selbe Info gibt es auch speziell für deutsch: In meinem deutschen blog

Manfred