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8 replies. Latest Post by microsoft_kc on March 19, 2009.
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davesmits
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03-18-2009 3:35 PM |
Is it possible to create silverlight 2 applications if i install the silverlight 3 beta tools etc?
ken tucker
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03-18-2009 3:52 PM |
IMPORTANT DEVELOPER NOTE: Once you install the Silverlight 3 Beta Tools for Visual Studio, your development environment will be a Silverlight 3 Beta environment. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 does not support multi-targeting for Silverlight applications so you will be unable to develop Silverlight 2 applications once these tools are installed. We recommend that you install the Silverlight 3 Beta tools on a separate environment if you still need to have the ability to develop Silverlight 2 applications. Ensure that you have either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1 installed as it is a prerequisite for the Silverlight 3 Beta Tools for Visual Studio. Below are the additional tools you’ll want to get started:
IMPORTANT DEVELOPER NOTE:
Once you install the Silverlight 3 Beta Tools for Visual Studio, your development environment will be a Silverlight 3 Beta environment. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 does not support multi-targeting for Silverlight applications so you will be unable to develop Silverlight 2 applications once these tools are installed. We recommend that you install the Silverlight 3 Beta tools on a separate environment if you still need to have the ability to develop Silverlight 2 applications.
Ensure that you have either Visual Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express 2008 SP1 installed as it is a prerequisite for the Silverlight 3 Beta Tools for Visual Studio. Below are the additional tools you’ll want to get started:
http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx
MarkMonster
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03-18-2009 4:26 PM |
Sounds like the best way to go is setting up a separate VM for Silverlight 3 development.
tomtaylo...
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03-18-2009 6:39 PM |
Amy Dullard from Microsoft has a nice blog post on switching back and forth between the two environments on the same machine, including a script to automate it: http://blogs.msdn.com/amyd/archive/2009/03/18/switching-from-silverlight-3-tools-to-silverlight-2-tools.aspx
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microsof...
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03-19-2009 12:19 AM |
Can I run my Silverlight 2 Applications in Silverlight 3 environment?
03-19-2009 5:21 AM |
microsoft_kc:Can I run my Silverlight 2 Applications in Silverlight 3 environment?
03-19-2009 5:26 AM |
I haven't tried yet, as soon (probably tomorrow) as I've set up a Dev environment for Silverlight 3 I will inform you.
mchlsync
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03-19-2009 5:33 AM |
You can view Silverlight 2 Content from the browser that has Silverlight 3 installed.
But if you are opening Silverlight 2 project from VS then it will ask you to convert it .
03-19-2009 6:08 AM |
mchlsync:You can view Silverlight 2 Content from the browser that has Silverlight 3 installed.
That's good. Atleast we don't have to modify our existing code to run in SL 3 Beta 1 like SL 2.
Thanks Michael....
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