Silverlight 2 Knowledge Base

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What you need

Prerequisite: You need Visual Studio 2008 sp1 or get the free Visual Web Developer Express 2008 with SP1.

Download and Install:

  1. Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (required). This add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express with SP1 will install the necessary Visual Studio updates, Silverlight project templates, developer runtime, and SDK.
  2. Install Microsoft Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 (optional). Silverlight Tools does not provide visual editing experience; you have to edit the XAML. You need Expression Blend to edit Silverlight UI graphically. If you do not have Expression Blend 2, download and install the trial version before installing the sp1.
  3. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=457B17B7-52BF-4BDA-87A3-FA8A4673F8BF&displaylang=enInstall Deep Zoom Composer (optional). You need this tool if you need to prepare DeepZoom image collection.

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Quickest Start

  1. Read either Jesse Liberty’s tutorial or Scott Guthrie's 8 part series.
  2. Check out QuickStart.
  3. Try Hands-on Lab

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Going Further


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Other downloads

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