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I finally got Silverlight 4 Toolkit installed , referenced and working after the difficulty of finding the right namespace described in this question.

But intellisense doesn't work fully: after I type "tk:", it doesn't pop up the various controls I have available, but if I type a control name out, e.g. DockPanel, then it works, as shown below. It will even give me intellisense after I type tk:DropPanel, which is odd.

How can I get intellisense to work in all cases for the Silverlight 4 Toolkit?

I can imagine I need another namespace, but this site says that this reference:

is now all you need (and will be automatically used by both Visual Studio and Blend)

alt text http://www.deviantsart.com/upload/q02bav.jpg

Here is a screenshot from Silverlight 3 Toolkit intellisense which has always worked well in both vs2008 and web dev express 2008:

alt text http://www.deviantsart.com/upload/196ufid.jpg

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Edward Tanguay
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  • Maybe you can't get full intellisense? I've noticed the same kind of behaviour from VS2008, often you won't get intellisense after typing the namespace prefix. – slugster Apr 18 '10 at 10:31
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    It has always worked for me well in Silverlight 3 Toolkit, I posted a screenshot of it above. – Edward Tanguay Apr 18 '10 at 10:46
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    I have the same issue with the toolkit and sometimes, the XAML editor in general. No rhyme or reason for it, just doesn't always trigger the intellisense window. It happened after I installed the toolkit though. – Jeff Yates Apr 19 '10 at 18:23

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Confirmed.

This appears to be an issue with the Silverlight Toolkit assemblies, as this does work for the SDK assemblies.

Print Screen http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/9004/noitellisensetoolkit.png

If I were you I'd file a bug up on connect @ Microsoft Connect

In the meanwhile, I'd recommend considering using Resharper to supply your Visual Studio intellisense as using the Ctrl+Space key combination in resharper does provide intellisense at this point.

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  • thanks, interesting to know it seems to be a general error, I tried to post there at Microsoft Connect but got technical issue: "If you believe you have reached this page in error, click the Help link at the top of the page to report the issue and include the ID in your e-mail." but the help link has no option to send an e-mail, so gave up on that route. :-( – Edward Tanguay Apr 19 '10 at 08:23
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    thanks, I have exactly the same problem with VS 2010 RTM. After installing SL 4 Toolkit I've lost intellisense on all non-sdk controls. – Denis Vuyka Jun 11 '10 at 11:45