R – Silverlight 3.0: Can’t add references beyond v2

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I wanted to add System.Data.Linq to my Silverlight 3.0 app, but the only references that are available to me are listed as version 2.0.50727 or lower. Shouldn't I have access to more than that?

In my project's properties, my Target Silverlight Version is set to "Silverlight 3.0" (the only option), and I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.

Is this expected behavior, or should I be able to add that reference, and more?

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You can't access System.Data.Linq in Siverlight, this dll would make no sense in the sandboxed client-side silverlight runtime. Hence no such silverlight dll exists. What you probably need to be looking into is Entity Framework on the server plus WCF to access the data from Silverlight.

For reasons best known by Microsoft all the standard Silverlight dlls have the 2.0.5.0 version numbers even the new ones added to the Silverlight 3 SDK.

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Set "Copy local = false"
Save
Set "Copy local = true"
Save

and that's it.

Visual Studio 2010 doesn't initially put: <private>True</private> in the reference tag and setting "copy local" to false causes it to create the tag. Afterwards it will set it to true and false accordingly.

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You can download the NAnt 0.91 Alpha 2 Release, which includes support for the net-4.0 framework. That framework works for compiling solutions with Silverlight 4 apps.

I have a solution that includes a Silverlight 4 application and a .NET 3.5 ASP.NET web project and I'm using the alpha release net-4.0 framework to compile and it works great.

Alternatively, still using the Nant alpha version, if you just need to compile a SilverLight 4 application with Nant and you can grab the silverlight-4.0 framework tag from Nant CVS here. and add that tag to your Nant.exe.config file.

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