My Development Environment for Silverlight

My current development environment for Silverlight 1.1 is as follows:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Beta 2
  • Microsoft Silverlight Tools Alpha for Visual Studio codename "Orcas" Beta 2
  • Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh for Windows
  • Expression Blend 2 August Preview

There are links to each of these downloads on this page: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

As you can tell, this stuff is all cutting edge and is all in prerelease, but it's the best that's out there right now for doing Silverlight 1.1 development. The good news is that you can get started with all of these technologies now for free and get a jump on everyone else doing Silverlight development.

Published Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:17 PM by Bill Reiss

Comments

# re: My Development Environment for Silverlight

Thanks so much for giving me this info because I tried to start the tutorial before starting this without looking at this first and I was very confused. This clears it up thanks!!

Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:02 PM by gamerpsp360

# re: My Development Environment for Silverlight

How did you get Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 on your computer? I downloaded it but it's only a .img file. What's going on?

Monday, October 15, 2007 9:10 PM by gamerpsp360

# re: My Development Environment for Silverlight

The img file is a DVD disk image. You can either burn it to a DVD, or do like I do, and use Virtual CloneDrive to mount the img file as a virtual disk.

www.slysoft.com/.../virtual-clonedrive.html

Monday, October 15, 2007 9:43 PM by Bill Reiss

# re: My Development Environment for Silverlight

Awesome thanks! Because my only DVD has iTunes files on it and i guess they're read-only and can't be deleted. Thanks a lot!

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:48 PM by gamerpsp360

# re: My Development Environment for Silverlight

Bill updated this post to Silverlight 2 Beta 1.  The update at: silverlightrocks.com/.../my-development-environment-for-silverlight-2-beta-1.aspx

Friday, April 18, 2008 4:18 PM by snyhol