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Silverlight 1.1a Tools for VS 2008

Get your downloaded going.  The Silverlight 1.1a tools are updated for Visual Studio 2008 RTM:

Here is a post by Scott Guthrie:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/26/silverlight-1-1-tools-alpha-for-visual-studio-2008-available-for-download.aspx

Visual Studio 2008 availabe to public

If you do not have an MSDN subscription, you can download the 90-day trail version of VS 2008 Team Server or the FREE Express versions:

For a great overview and links to downloads, check out Scott Guthrie's blog post about VS 2008 at:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-released.aspx

Brakes on for VS 2008 at the moment

If you are doing Silverlight 1.1 development though, you might want to put the brakes on upgrading to VS 2008.  Scott Guthrie's post mentions:

"Two popular add-ins to Visual Studio are not yet available to download for the final VS 2008 release.  These are the Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio and the Web Deployment Project add-in for Visual Studio.  Our hope is to post updates to both of them to work with the final VS 2008 release in the next two weeks.  If you are doing Silverlight 1.1 development using VS 2008 Beta2 you'll want to stick with with VS 2008 Beta2 until this updated Silverlight Tools Add-In is available. "

Visual Studio 2008 RTM Available!

Well, it is out now if you are an MSDN subscriber. At the moment of this posting though, they seem to have an error on this site, but I would image the downloads will continue shortly :)

Big News!

Scott Guthrie posted today an entry titled "Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience".

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/30/optimizing-the-silverlight-install-experience.aspx

This is an interesting read, but for me, the big news is in the comments.  He mentions:

"Windows 2000 support will show up with Silverlight 1.1.  Our next public preview of Silverlight will be a big one (lots and lots of new features - which I'll be blogging about more later this year)."

Yes, Windows 2000 support and "lots of new features" being added to the 1.1 beta.

"I'll be doing a more indepth tutorial series on Silverlight development once I finish my LINQ to SQL series, and will talk about the complete feature set as part of that.  The beta of Silverlight 1.1 will have many, many, many new big features - including a lot of controls work."

He will put together an article series soon, which following his great LINQ to SQL series, promises to be very helpful!

Also notice the "many, many, many, many big features".  Oh, come on, how am I suppose to handle the wait now ;)

Finally, the "a lot of controls".  Cool!!!  Will be interesting to see just what wonderful gifts we receive ;)

One last point, when asked about Flex features, he said:

"In general yes.  Silverlight will pretty much have a superset of Flex functionality.  I'll be blogging more about some of the more application development features of Silverlight (controls, layout, databinding, styles/templates, application model, web services, data querying, etc) later this year."

Databinding!!!  That one feature will be helpful!

Looks like 1.1 will be prime time Silverlight.  Maybe they should have made it 2.0 Beta from the sounds of the feature increase.

I see many sleepless nights ahead :)

Beginning Silverlight 1.1 Part 1

Here is a decent quick start to Silverlight 1.1 from Andrey Baskov along with a simple drawing sample.  For those thinking about jumping in the pool, this could be a good look!

http://www.codeproject.com/silverlight/BeginningSilverlightPart1.asp

Sudoko Helper

If you have ever been stuck in a Sudoko puzzle, here is a good helper for you:

http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/08/21/time-for-a-little-fun-and-games-silverlight-helps-play-sudoku.aspx

Breeze Designer

3D Modelling tool now supports Silverligth:

http://www.naskhan.com/2007/08/21/new-3d-silverlight-tool/

Communicate between Flex and Silverlight?

Not sure why you would want to, but here are the details:

http://blog.paranoidferret.com/index.php/2007/08/20/communicate-between-flex-and-silverlight-using-javascript/

Dojo Adds Silverlight Effects Support

http://drawk.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/dojo-adds-silverlight-effects-support/

Enhance you file uploads with Silverlight

Josh Twist shows you how to use the OpenFileDialog and other extras to upload multiple files and enhance the user experience:

http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Enhance_your_file_uploads_with_Silverlight.aspx

Silverlight soon to run in Opera

Seems there are problems getting Silverlight to work in Opera but from the sounds of this post, it should be soon:

http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/08/23/whats-happening-with-silverlight-for-opera/

Microsoft's Partner Site using Silverlight

Microsoft on the move to use Silverlight.  Here is a page with a few Silverlight components:

http://members.microsoft.com/partner/digitalwpc/#

MSN Election Guide

New Silverlight/AJAX page for browsing search results for the different candidates based on different issues.

http://election.msn.com/podium08.aspx

Silverlight 30 Day Sprint

Matt Casto decided to get serious about Silverlight.  Follow his journey on his "Silverlight 30 Day Sprint":


http://mattcasto.blogspot.com/2007/08/silverlight-30-day-sprint-day-1.html

Silverlight 1.0 Released and Linux support

A little slow on this post as have been greatly busy on another project, but had to point out a post on Scott Guthrie's blog:

Silverlight 1.0 Rleased and Silverlight for Linux Annouced:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/09/04/silverlight-1-0-released-and-silverlight-for-linux-announced.aspx

Silverlight Controls - The path to reusable XAML

Excellent article by Justin-Josef Angel[MVP]:

"We, as developers have not been given proper tools and instructions on how to develop reusable Silverlight objects. Let's see if we can start right now. We're going to see there're four ways right now out there trying to do reusable Silverlight"

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/justinangel/archive/2007/08/14/Silverlight-Controls-_2D00_-The-path-to-reusable-XAML.aspx