Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:12 PM
Funny thing happened when I tried to install Silverlight Beta 2 on this XP machine. I downloaded the exe and ran it, but I got a dialog asking me about something called SQLab Server Side Implementation. Odd...what would this have to do with Silverlight?
Turns out that SQLab is a product of Quest software, and is a tuning tool for Oracle (or so my Google results tell me). Now, I do have Toad and a bunch of Oracle stuff installed on this machine, but it doesn't make any sense as to why I'm getting a dialog about it when I install Silverlight.
Dave Southwood
had a similar issue on his machine, and the common denominator is definately Oracle installations. So here's the workaround if you find you're getting the same thing:
Right click on Silverlight.2.0.exe and select "Extract To...". This is just a zip file with the following contents:
install.exe
install.res.dll
silverlight.msi
silverlight.msp
uaclauncher.exe
Once you have the files extracted, just run the silverlight.msi and Silverlight will be installed without any issues.
So what caused the SQLab dialog to pop up? The uaclauncher.exe. Double click it, and you'll see the familiar SQLab dialog staring back at you.
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