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Silverlight Version 2 RC0 has been Released!

Version 2 of the Silverlight developer runtime along with the Silverlight Tools is now available. This release candidate will give developers the chance to convert their sites from Beta 2 –> Release before the final release of the runtime is out. Also, included below is a link to a patch that will upgrade Blend.Visual Studio 2008 ...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 7

Silverlight Tip of the Day #46 Title: Font Support in SilverlightSilverlight Tip of the Day #45: Title: Text Formatting with the TextBlock controlSilverlight Tip of the Day #44: Title: Silverlight-enabled WCF Services versus ASMX Web Services. Silverlight Tip of the Day #43 Title: Making it Snow in Silverlight. Demo...

What to do when VWD crashes or hangs on you

It is surely frustrating when VS or VWD crashes on you or hangs with "Not Responsing" message. If you do not have reliable repro steps, the best piece of information you can provide to us is a debug dump. He is how you can obtain it.If you are using Visual Studio1. Start Visual Studio. 2. Start another instance of VS. 3. In the second instance...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 5

Silverlight Tip of the Day #32 Title: How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page. Demo:http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/Custom%20UserControl/iframe.htmlSilverlight Terrain Tutorial Part 3 Title: Creating Smooth Tile Transitions using Opacity Masks. Demo: http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/66033/...

Debugging A Web Site With A Host Header

If you have downloaded the RTM version of SP1 for Visual Studio 2008, you may get an error when trying to debug a Web Site with a host header on IIS 6 or IIS 5.1. The error message reads: "Unable to start debugging on the web server. An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Please see Help for assistance.&...

Multiple control selection tips/tricks/workarounds

In an earlier blog, we mentioned that multiple control selection was returning with VS2008 SP1. We also mentioned that it isn’t a functionally complete feature yet due to time constraints. Rather than waiting till the next release of Visual Studio, we decided to deliver the core functionality in SP1. The plan is to deliver a completed ...