A number of great improvements and changes were made for Silverlight Tools Beta 2. The following list summaries some of the major changes with details on each below. 1. WCF Templates for Silverlight Enabled. WCF templates are now enabled for Silverlight. If you want to add Web Services to your Silverlight applica...
Summary Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 is not compatible with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta. The good news is that Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is coming soon. Until then you will not be able to install both Silverlight Tools and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Until Silverlight Tools B...
Looking for an good list of Silverlight Resources? I have created a list of Silverlight Blogs, Tutorials and more that you can find here:http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/05/05/silverlight-resources.aspxI will be keeping this list up-to-date so send me any links you feel are missing!Thank you.Mike Snow SDET Lead Visual Studi...
I have uploaded a series of tutorials on Game Programming with Silverlight 2 using Visual Studio 2008 Tools beta 2.If you are interested in these topics, feel free to track my blog here:http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/default.aspxMike SnowSenior SDET Lead.Visual Studio Web Tools
From time to time, we get a question about whether we intend for Parallel Extensions to target Silverlight. The simple answer is: Not Yet.Here’s a more complete answer: Not for Silverlight 2.0, at least. Rich Lander from the CLR team described the Silverlight compatibility story very nicely over on his blog. I will summarize...
A quick announcement -- an updated version of the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 that works with the released version of Visual Studio 2008 is now available! This release provides the same features as the Silverlight Tools Alpha add-on which was previously available for Visual Studio 2008 Beta2. To ...
If you are using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, and are building applications for Silverlight using Javascript, there is a cool project from Justin-Josef Angel, which I recommend checking out. Using Justin's library and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, one can get much richer Javascript intellisense experience for Silverlight. Below is ...
In case you hadn't noticed, today has been a busy day in Redmond uploading new bits to the download servers. The following are now available for download: We'll have more blog posts in the next week or so showing off the new features, so download and tell us what you think.IMPORTANT RELNOTE: If you are doing ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 development with VS...
We’ve just announced the new Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools support at MIX ’07! Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for building next-gen media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 1.1 contains a cross-platform CLR, allowing you to use your favorite .NET language rather than JavaScript to build the cl...
