Why can't I double-click a button to create an event handler in Silverlight 2.0?

Question

In WPF, ASP.NET, WinForms, I create a button, double-click on it and fill in the event handler.

In Silverlight (with Visual Web Developer 2008), I make a button, double-click it but nothing happens.

Is this not supported when writing Silverlight applications for some reason? Do we have to write these event handlers by hand?

Answer 1

The silverlight designer is display only. If you want to move things on screen with your mouse or double click to add events, you need to use expression blend.

Answer 2

This will be a feature in the next release of Silverlight along with many other developer tool improvements. You can create the event handler "semi-automatically" in the XAML-editor, though, using Intellisense.

Answer 3

Because they did silverlight in a hurry...