Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is a useful package that is designed to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.
This download will install the following:
- Silverlight 2 developer runtime
- Silverlight 2 software development kit
- KB956453 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
and/or
- KB956485 for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1
- Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
and/or
- Silverlight Tools for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1
Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 includes:
- Visual Basic and C# Project templates
- Intellisense and code generators for XAML
- XAML design preview
- Debugging of Silverlight applications
- Remote debugging of Silverlight applications for Mac
- Web reference support
- WCF Templates
- Team Build and command line build support
- Integration with Expression Blend
Requirements:
· Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with the Visual Web Developer feature or Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1
