Blend2 - August CTP - Silverlight 1.1

08-13-2007 4:34 PM |

Hi,

I downloaded this CTP to Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 VHD after downloading
silver light from these links:

1) http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/downloads.aspx - Silverligth 1.1
2)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B52AEB39-1F10-49A6-85FC-A0A19CAC99AF&displaylang=en

When I fired up this Expression, it only showed me following project types:

1) WPF Application (.exe)
2) WPF Control Library
3) Silverlight Application (JavaScript)

I am assuming that the last project type is for Silverlight 1.0 and is not
for Silverlight 1.1. I was hoping to see 'Silverlight 1.1 Client Application'
project type.

Am I missing something? Or is the last project type is for both 1.0 and 1.1? If 1.1, then why don't I see the above project type?

I know that I got Silverlight 1.1 as I verified it through Add/Remove programs/Microsoft Silverlight/Click here for support information.

Thanks.

Re: Blend2 - August CTP - Silverlight 1.1

08-13-2007 5:10 PM |

There is a workaround described at: http://silverlight.net/forums/t/3491.aspx.  It is a long thread, but if you search for posts by "samsp" he describes a way to edit the registry that will fix both Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend.  There is also a new version of Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 that has a proper fix for VS.  Details are available at: http://silverlight.net/forums/t/3580.aspx.  We are looking into a solution for Blend as well

 Currier

Re: Blend2 - August CTP - Silverlight 1.1

08-13-2007 5:10 PM |

There is a workaround described at: http://silverlight.net/forums/t/3491.aspx.  It is a long thread, but if you search for posts by "samsp" he describes a way to edit the registry that will fix both Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend.  There is also a new version of Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 that has a proper fix for VS.  Details are available at: http://silverlight.net/forums/t/3580.aspx.  We are looking into a solution for Blend as well

 Currier

Re: Blend2 - August CTP - Silverlight 1.1

08-15-2007 1:00 PM |

There is a new version of the Blend 2 August Preview that will work with the latest versions of Silverlight 1.1:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=69540337-B619-4A47-AC27-52D8AF3A7830&displaylang=en

Thanks for your patience!

Currier

Re: Blend2 - August CTP - Silverlight 1.1

08-15-2007 2:57 PM |

I installed it and it now shows following project types on my machine:

1) WPF Application (.exe)

2) WPF Control Library

3) Silverlight Application (JavaScript)

4) Silverlight Application (.NET)

5) Silverlight Application (.NET Orcas)

I have a question about 4 and 5. What exactly is the difference other than running on vs.net 2005 and vs.2008?

Raghu/..

Re: Blend2 - August CTP - Silverlight 1.1

08-15-2007 4:03 PM |

The main difference is that (5) requires VS 2008 and the Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 package to work properly.  It uses a custom build step defined there.  The main benefits of this custom step are partial class generation and automatic location of the Silverlight DLL's.  If you want to get more detail on the differences you could create both projects and then do a diff on the resulting .csproj files.

Currier