In response to what I discussed yesterday, a Microsoft employee has pointed out that my Visual Studio 2005 project and template directories were not set to the defaults. If they had been set to the defaults, the Silverlight JavaScript application template would have installed to the right place. There are two issues here: 1. My non-default directories were a result of being a Visual Studio 2005 alpha and beta te There are two issues here: 1. My non-default directories were a result of being a Visual Studio 2005 alpha and beta tester. It’s not like I changed them. This is an old Microsoft bug come back to haunt us. 2. An installation that assumes default directories is doing the wrong thing. The right way to do any add-on installation is to query the existing configuration for the correct directories. If the installation was never tested against a non-default case, the QA was inadequate. I’d forgive this for a beta or RC version, but this was the released Silverlight 1.0 SDK. (“10 points from Gryffendor, and report to me for detention,” said Snape, curling his lip.) Nevertheless, I’ve updated my VS05 directories to the defaults and copied all my projects and templates over from the old directories. I don’t have any need to play guinea pig for Microsoft, or any other software tools vendor, more than absolutely necessary. Software Development