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Install Silverlight 4 Toolkit without Visual Studio 2010 (for build server)

I was just informed that the Silverlight 4 Toolkit (last download) requires a preinstallation of VS 2010.

We are creating an automated build server for a very large Silverlight Prism project and would prefer not to complete the full installation of VS 2010 on an unmanned build machine.

  • Is VS 2010 required to install the Silverlight 4 Toolkit?
  • Why is this required?
  • Can I get around this (copy specific fragments from another Dev machine?)

Thanks in advance for any information.

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Do not install Toolkit at all. In these large, controllable scenarios, you probably want to copy the dll toolkit files to a folder that belongs to your change management system.

Ultimately, a toolbox is just a collection of DLLs. During installation, it does other things to use it as a developer, convenient for VS and Blend, but it does not have special requirements during assembly.

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The problem is that it does not install msbuild tasks. I found that you can only install the SDK by extracting it from the download tools. See here for more details: http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2010/09/building-silverlight-4-applications.html .

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