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Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for download. If you’re MSDN subscriber, you can start to download as it has been available 8 Feb 2010. It will be available for public from 10 Feb 2010.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

This RC doesn’t support Silverlight 4.

But of course it doesn’t mean that Visual Studio 2010 RTM will not, it will.

See you at Visual Studio 2010 RTM, Silverlight 4…

Edit: Based on the following ScottGu's post, the next version of Silverlight 4 will be supported by VS 2010 RC (note that currently Silverlight 4 still BETA)
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/02/08/vs-2010-net-4-release-candidate.aspx

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Today when I was developing Silverlight app using Telerik RadControls, there was an error “Invalid FORMATETC stucture” prevented me to complete the drag n drop of RadControls to the XAML editor.

I didn’t have any idea what was caused it because I could still drag n drop the Button control to the XAML. I thought it was Telerik but it could be anything.

Then the fast way to get the answer was of course Google.

Oops there are may results when I searched invalid FORMATETC, that’s a good sign to get the answer. Yeah it’s not Telerik specific error but Visual Studio error. It’s caused by the reference of toolbox items were messed up.

The solution was simply resetting the toolbox items by right clicking the toolbox then choosing Reset Toolbox.

Be patient, it could take sometime to reload all toolbox items.

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When you’re installing new development tool (i.e. Microsoft Expression Web) after Visual Studio 2008 installed, some of the Visual Studio 2008 file associations may be lost because of linked to the new installed development tool.

To restore Visual Studio 2008 File Associations (AKA Default Program), you can simply clicking a single button.

Open Tools menu, then select Options.

Expand the Environment –> General tab, and you will see Restore File Associations button. Click that button and all Visual Studio 2008 file associations are now restored.

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