On a completely unrelated note, I got a call from a recruiter who's found me 
roles in the past (there's a couple of good ones - recruiters, that is) for a 
Silverlight role.
I laughed and said, really? Someone is looking for a Silverlight developer?!
He replied yes. To remove it.

I just about lost it, crying with laughter. Might be worth leaving Silverlight 
on your Linked in profile (or change it to "removal of")

On 24 Aug. 2017 3:29 pm, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think I found the answer here:

Thank you for your feedback! The .NET 3.5 Workflow project type is no longer 
supported in VS2017. This is by design as WF from .NET 3.5 (System.Workflow) 
has been deprecated since 2012. While you will not be able to create new 
projects, it is still possible to open old projects if you install Office 
Developer Tools. But only SharePoint 2010 workflows are still supported.

I forgot that there was some huge WWF update years ago and all the plumbing and 
libraries changed. The project I'm trying to open is the old style that 
references System.Workflow. As a test I created a new stub WWF project and I 
see it references System.Activities.

So it looks like the project which opened in VS2015 two weeks ago is no longer 
supported by VS2017 ... another subtle trap for the complacent or trusting. The 
comment above hints that I might be able to open it if certain conditions are 
met, but I'm not confident of the outcome and waste of time.

GK

On 22 August 2017 at 08:51, Greg Keogh 
<gfke...@gmail.com<mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>> wrote:
After upgrading to Visual Studio 2017 I can't open any Windows Workflow 
projects (Incompatible, The application is not installed).

Various advice from searches suggests to check WWF in the Individual Components 
list (seems obvious), but it weirdly makes no difference. Others suggest you 
need SharePoint support, others suggest Framework 3.5 is needed. It all makes 
no difference.

There must be some other dependent piece of dark matter that I can't find. Any 
ideas anyone?

Greg K


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