Silverlight and VS 2005 or VS 2008 Express Edition

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Silverlight and VS 2005 or VS 2008 Express Edition

Is is possible to create silverlight content in C# using Visual Studio 2005 Professional or Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition? I can't find an answer on Microsoft's web site. Thanks for any help!

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I belive you can with 2008 express.

Make sure you install SP1 to 2008 then install everything else from here (it has the SP1 download as well)

TJB 2009-02-28 22:41:53

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I think you should take a look at Visual Web Developer Express and the Silverlight Tools

Vegar 2009-02-28 22:47:14

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Yes if the express edition is Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. Here is a quote from this blog post from the guy who runs the development team for Silverlight at Microsoft:

Developers can use either VS 2008 or the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express to open and edit Silverlight 2 projects, and get a powerful code-focused .NET development environment.

Peter McGrattan 2009-03-01 11:02:30

Thanks that's what I needed!

Lucas McCoy 2009-03-01 18:11:58

"the guy who runs the development team"...nice one - that's the Mighty Scott Guthrie you're talking about :-)

Gordon Mackie JoanMiro 2009-03-13 15:18:10

@Joan Miro: Yes indeed :-) I didn't know quite how to phrase that and eventually went with a quote taken from http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/about.aspx

Peter McGrattan 2009-03-14 01:15:57

2005 i think you can only create 1.0 project ; and yes you can create SL 2.0 projects in VS 2008 express(visual web developer) but you will need SP1 and the tools everything you need is here

Yassir 2009-03-01 13:04:49

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