Nov 13

Microsoft Silverlight extends and amplifies your existing development skills, empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser.

Get Started Building Silverlight 2 Applications

  1. Install Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
  2. 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. For additional information read the overview and the Silverlight 2 Readme Notes.

  3. Install Microsoft Expression Blend 2 and then install Microsoft Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1
  4. Expression Blend 2 along with Service Pack 1 allows designers to graphically create UI’s for Silverlight 2 applications.

  5. Install Deep Zoom Composer
  6. This tool allows you to prepare your images for use with the Deep Zoom feature in Silverlight 2.

  7. Download Silverlight Toolkit
  8. This Toolkit is a Microsoft project containing Silverlight controls, components and utilities that can be downloaded and used in your Silverlight applications. It includes full source code, samples and tests.

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