I had trouble with someone's Silverlight site... I dropped my buddy Tim Heuer an email and asked him if it was me or what... he said it was me... sigh...
I still disagree, but as this progressed, Tim offered up that there is a problem folks are reporting that I appeared to be on the edge of... so I figured what the heck, let's help!
After an email exchange last night, we realized I needed .NET 3.5 SP1 installed.. oops... so I tried that and it pooted...hmmm
Tim says "Oh if you have VS2008 on there, you need the whole install" ... now that's where I should have heard John McLain from Die Hard: " Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs...", but I didn't.
So, I at least knew there was an order to all this and just having uninstalled all my Silverlight on Sunday night, I was a local knowledge expert on doing that, so I did it again. I then pulled down the ISO image for the full boat SP1 and promptly forgot how I've executed them in the past. So I found an exe to d/l and did that, ran it, and it was taking a long time, and it was already about 11:55pm, so I left it running and went to bed.
Got up at 5:20 this morning and the install had puked and died... yuck, yuck, yuck... it died because a log file was not created... seems like everything important happened but a log... shrug...so I went out to my MSDN subscription site and downloaded the ISO image from there, and then spent too much time remembering how to run ISO images. Cranked that up and proceeded to get ready for leaving for work.
It puked and died as well... sigh--same problem... good thing I'm a Microsoft fan boy or I could be getting pissed by this point :)
So... it was time to leave... the system appeared to be in who knows what state, certainly no Silverlight onboard, and no work accomplished last night. THAT is when the line from Die Hard came to mind... along with a couple others as well :)
So I guess tonight I'll run it yet one more time so I can send Tim a log -- didn't think to do that this morning -- then I'm going to try to clean any drek off from the aborted installs, and get Silverlight back on there... unless of course we try other attempts to get things loaded in which case anything could happen!
Gotta love it...