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Written by: Justin Rich
Getting started with Silverlight for Visual Studio 2008The first step in getting started with Silverlight development with Visual Studio 2008 is to:
A. Make sure you have VS2008 (duh)
B. Download the Silverlight Tools Beta for VS2008 here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&displaylang=en
This is a self executing installer that will automatically configure your installment of Visual Studio 2008 to include Silverlight as a project type when specifying a new project. The two options are Silverlight Project and Silverlight Class Library. For beginners, you'll just want to start a new Silverlight Project. Later on, once you've mastered the development of the front-end application, then you'll want to start constructing the object oriented framework of your Silverlight applications by using the Silverlight Class Library.
If the link to the download changes or the versioning goes to first release, please post the link below and I'll try to make sure to catch it myself.
I'm going to be covering Silverlight development to the best of my ability over the next few months in order to provide a clearer picture of developing real-world applications using this tool rather than simple "hello world" smiley faces.
If you are looking for the Visual Studio 2005 development kit, you can download that here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FB7900DB-4380-4B0F-BB95-0BAEC714EE17&displaylang=en
This download actually involves unzipping files and including them with your VS2005 system files, so if you've got 2008, I'd suggest doing that one. If not, and you're serious about Silverlight, you may want to consider it.
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