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So You've Installed Silverlight 2 Beta 1: What Next?

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OK, so you've got all the bits downloaded and installed on your machine. What's the best way to start to get familiar with everything we've added to Silverlight 2?

Well, you could do worse than start with the thirty page hands-on lab that I spent part of last week frantically working on! This lab takes you through the various steps of creating and packaging an application, figuring out layout and controls, all the way through to creating a mini-game using Silverlight 2. It's a good lab to get familiar with XAML, Expression and the new Visual Studio tools.

Once you're done with that lab, there are a number of others that you can go through to add depth to your knowledge, written by Adam and Laurence. Download them here. And if even that isn't enough for you, there are some tutorials here that Jesse Liberty has been working on. Hopefully that's plenty to get you up and running for now!

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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Silverlight 2 Beta 1 seems to be great, but it's a pity the tools for Visual Studio don't work with the Express editions. :-(

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    I'm sure your write up is terrific but I can't get the SDK to install! No Silverlight templates show up in the New Project dialog. I've repaired, uninstalled, and reinstalled the SDK and it's no good! I've run out of things to try. Any ideas? This is on Vista SP1.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    That's what I get for dl'ing something while it's still being discussed. All good now Tim, thanks! R--

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Hi! If someone interested I posted a Custom Control development article on CodeProject for Silverlight 2.0 Beta1. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/mediabutton.aspx Thanks, Attila

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    This morning during the key note @ Mix, Microsoft announced that Silverlight 2 Beta 1,  Expression

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Has anyone noticed that the designer features don't work in 2008 team edition? just me?

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2008
    Hi todd morrison, If you are talking about the visual designer for Silverlight XAML, the limitation has been mentioned by Microsoft already. So at this stage the designer desktop is still READ ONLY to Silverlight controls. However Microsoft said they will finally get it working. To help make your current work easier, you can,

  1. Download Blend 2.5 Preview to graphically design the UI. I have tried that today and found it interacts with Visual Studio 2008 just perfectly (I have to say I almost want to buy it when it is officially released, if there is a good pricing on it).
  2. Drag and drop controls to XAML text editor and modify them in there. Lixin

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Any articles on deployment?  I can create Silverlight 2 apps that run in the IDE no problem, but published apps just create a white browser screen that is all Silverlight (if you right click on it).

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    March 06, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Just to add to previous, whilst I'm sure it's in Code + Markup somewhere, it would be nice to get pointed in Quickstarts to an example where one took a basic control, was able to wrap it with a new property in C# whilst  being able to expose that property as XAML. Something like a SpecialBorder or a MyHalo round a textbox would do! Coupled with really clean start controls, think that would 'show the way' to obviate some of the 'pre-decorated frustrations' whilst creating a nice parallel with OwnerDraw.

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    duh, like the 'Creating Custom Controls for Silverlight' Quickstart (numeric up down)!

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2008
    I followed your lab but found that the IsFullScreen stuff near the end didn't work in Firefox on Windows.  It did work in IE.  Anyone else have that problem?

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2008
    Tim, Karl here.  I've started writing Mole for Silverlight.  It's going very well and hope to ship soon. I have a minor bump in the carpet.  SL 2 does not have a TreeView control.  Any ideas?  I've spend hours searching, did find one company but their control set is $550.00 for a distributable license.  I only need a TreeView to finish.  I really don't want to spend 3-4 days writing a TreeView for Silverlight if possible. Thanks for any suggestions, Karl Shifflett http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/mole-for-visual-studio/

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2008
    Just a quick point, in the Silverlight Fundamentals doc it tells you to take a look at the binary ouput but it forgets to tell you to build the code first. I know, but it is aimed at the total novice, might be nice just to throw a 'press build now' in there first ;)

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    Yes, we have Silverlight 2 Videos and Yes we have Silverlight 2 tutorials But don't miss Tim Sneath's

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    Yes, we have Silverlight 2 Videos and Yes we have Silverlight 2 tutorials But don't miss Tim Sneath's

  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2008
    Yes, we have Silverlight 2 Videos and Yes we have Silverlight 2 tutorials But don't miss Tim Sneath's

  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2008
    Any has a tutorial for creating a custom control that is bindable ? so you kan write: <src:CustomControl> <CustomControl.ItemTemplate>    <DataTemplate> ...

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2008
    The lab was really very good. Great job.

  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2008
    Great lab Tim!  Just what I needed to get rolling with the new Silverlight Beta.

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    February 05, 2009
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