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Silverlight 4 Tools Released

April 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010 04/15/10
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This morning we released Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010!The link to download and installs the tools is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177508.  The tools will install: Note that this is the RC release of the Silverlight 4 tools. With these tools you can start developing Silverlight 4 applications ...

New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

October 27, 2009 Oct 27, 2009 10/27/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will bring full support for developing applications in Silverlight 3.  There’s a few things that have changed since VS2010 Beta 1, and we hope you enjoy the new beta release! Silverlight 2 is no longer supported – long live Silverlight 3 Now that Silverlight 3 has released (including a GDR; the latest ...

Deploying Silverlight Projects using VS10

June 5, 2009 Jun 5, 2009 06/5/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
With VS10 beta1 environment, you can also install Silverlight 3 beta to combine the power of both. When a Silverlight 3 beta project is compiled, it generates xap file.  The web application or website should take the xap as content for Build Action.  The following shows what the default Siliverlight project has: Having this ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 12

April 6, 2009 Apr 6, 2009 04/6/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Most Recent Posts:Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 - Setting Default Browser from within VS Silverlight Tip of the Day #105 - How to Enable GPU Acceleration Silverlight Tip of the Day #104 - Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 - Use Integers for Layout Calculations Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 -...

Creating Silverlight 3 applications for PHP

March 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009 03/19/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Juan Rivera from JCX Software and the developer of VS.PHP has added support for Silverlight 3.  If you’re a PHP developer this is very cool news.VS.PHP is a plug-in for Visual Studio that brings the rich development environment of Visual Studio to PHP.  In addition to the great intellisense Visual Studio provides for JScript, ...

Silverlight 3 Tools Beta Released!

March 18, 2009 Mar 18, 2009 03/18/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
Silverlight 3 Tools Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download. This installer includes: XAP Compression Improvements The Silverlight 3 SDK creates XAPs compressed up to 40% better than the Silverlight 2 SDK. Support for Cached Transparent Platform Extensions Reduce the size of your ...

Go to MIX09

January 16, 2009 Jan 16, 2009 01/16/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
MIX Is just around the corner and if you haven’t already registered I highly recommend you do! This is one event I look forward to the most each year. I attended last year and I had the most incredible experience learning about Silverlight and meeting so many intelligent people (OK, and I had a ton of fun playing Poker too). If you are...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 10

January 8, 2009 Jan 8, 2009 01/8/09
Web Development Tools Microsoft
This link provides a complete Tips of the Day Summary Outline - http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2009/01/02/silverlight-tips-of-the-day-summary-outline.aspx. This page will be kept updated with any changes or additions to the Tip of the Day blog for Silverlight.Most Recent Posts:Tip #78 - Animating Objects with ...