Installing Silverlight2 Tools for Visual Studio
December 31st, 2008 | 
Author: 
I was talking with a friend of mine a couple of days ago about the future of web development and XAML specifically when he made the comment about the tools not being available for the average developer.
I said that I was pretty sure the tools were available now for Visual Studio. This morning, I went looking and sure enough the tools are available so I thought I’d download them and install them. And while I’m at it, I’ll write about the experience.
So, the first thing you’ll want to do is to make sure you have Service Pack 1 installed. You can go here:
Note: This install takes quite a while (An hour or so) so plan for it.
Even if you aren’t going to install the Silverlight tools, you’ll want to install SP1 if you haven’t already.
Once you have that installed, you’ll need to download and install the tools from this link:
This also takes a fair amount of time.
At no point was I asked to reboot. But, I was required to make sure some applications were closed before the install processes would continue.
Once everything is installed, launch Visual Studio 2008. Under File > New Project, you should see a new tree element for Silverlight where you can create either a Silverlight application or a Silverlight library.
Other post in Silverlight
- Installing Silverlight2 Tools for Visual Studio - December 31st, 2008
- More on SilverLight Developer Installation - January 7th, 2009
- SilverLight - Layout Managers - January 14th, 2009
- Friday Books - Silverlight 2 in Action - January 16th, 2009
- Review of the MDC at NYC - January 21st, 2009
- Silverlight - Wire up your form for programming - February 4th, 2009
- JavaScript vs Silverlight vs ... - February 10th, 2009
- Silverlight - Databinding - February 17th, 2009
- Friday Books - Data-Driven Services with SL2 - February 20th, 2009
- Silverlight - Databinding ListBox - March 5th, 2009
- Friday Books - Silverlight 2 Recipes - March 13th, 2009
- Silverlight - Binding ResourceDictionaries - March 17th, 2009
- Silverlight - RESX Files and Internationalization - April 2nd, 2009
- Friday Books - Introducing MS Silverlight 2 - April 3rd, 2009
- Silverlight, Web Services and Datasets - April 23rd, 2009
- Silverlight – Databinding to a Web Service - April 27th, 2009
- Silverlight – Navigating Data - May 7th, 2009
- Essential Silverlight 3 - October 30th, 2009
- Do you Need My Help? - November 18th, 2009
Other Related Items:
![Stop Making Sense [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513DfgIHUVL._SL160_.jpg "Stop Making Sense [Blu-ray]")
Stop Making Sense [Blu-ray]Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/13/2009
Wordpress - How to Install a Wordpress Blog on a Website (Video Tutorial)In this 1 1/2 hour video series you will learn step-by-step how to install wordpress correctly on your website.The Benefits of Wordpress f... Read More >
Related Post
Posted in 
Tags: 
