There’s a ton of stuff out there that just makes my head go crazy. If you want to get started, here’s the quick run down of problems I ran into and what I did to get things up and running.
Version Clarification
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FREE | Silverlight 1.0 | Initial release. |
| FREE | Silverlight 1.1 Alpha September Refresh | Upcoming Release (final version will be named 2.0). |
| Trial | Microsoft Expression Blend | Supports Visual Studio 2005. (Project files only) |
| “Preview” | Microsoft Expression Blend 2 (December Preview) |
Supports Visual Studio 2008. (Solution and Project files!) |
| FREE | Silverlight 1.1 tools for VS2008 | Support of Silverlight 1.1 in Visual Studio 2008. |
*Pretend Blend v1 and Silverlight 1.0 never existed. Get all the lastest stuff, believe me. You’ll be MUCH happier.
I’m getting started with the Creating a Clock with Silverlight tutorial. I’m running Silverlight 1.1 Alpha, Visual Studio 2008 (with Resharper 3.0), Expression Blend 2 December Preview, and the Silverlight Tools Alpha for VS2008 all on a Vista Business Edition machine.
READY-SET-GO.
Update: This is a Silverlight example, but the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 has not been released yet (along with the tools for VS2008) that makes me sad, =(. Still, it is an awesome tutorial to create a Digg client application from Scott Guthrie.
“The entire application is implemented in about 35 lines of C# code and 75 lines of XAML page/user-control markup” -ScottGu <– WOW.