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Trouble installing Silverlight Tools

The reported issues with installation of Silverlight Tools has been relatively low. But, there have been a handful of issues reported on the Silverlight.net forums, mostly involving Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (which is required before installing Read More...
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 12:42 AM by Amy | 1 Comments

Check This Box

You've seen the checkbox on nearly all products from Microsoft. " I would like to improve the installation experience by sending anonymous feedback ." " I want to help make Microsoft software and services even better. " Checking the box is for opting-in Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:33 PM by Amy | 1 Comments

Installing Silverlight Tools RC0 Without English Visual Studio

The release candidate for Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio is currently available for the English version of Visual Studio only. Users of non-English Visual Studio can still use this Silverlight Tools release candidate if they install the English version Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:39 PM by Amy | 0 Comments

Silverlight Tools Release Candidate Now Available!

The first release candidate of Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download. This package is an add-in for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008 with SP1. The Silverlight Tools installer includes the Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:55 PM by Amy | 2 Comments

Silverlight Help in Visual Studio

The Silverlight SDK comes with a large collection of help documents to help you get started writing Silverlight applications. These help documents are available online at MSDN . However, for those times you are doing development offline - maybe on a plane, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:49 PM by Amy | 0 Comments

Problems Creating a New Silverlight Project after Tools Installation

SYMPTONS When creating a new Silverlight project or opening an existing Silverlight project, you receive an error message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object or Package Load Failure CAUSE Visual Studio failed to load the dlls required Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:41 PM by Amy | 0 Comments

Silverlight Tools Must be Updated After Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Today, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was released. This service pack includes support for SQL Server 2008, new ADO.NET features such as the Entity Framework, improvements to the WPF designers, WCF templates for Silverlight projects, debugger support Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 9:00 AM by Amy | 7 Comments

Blackjack, Silverlight 1.0 Edition, Part I

One of my favorite HDi apps was blackjack , so I have been just itching to turn it into a Silverlight application. Now, this one wasn't quite so easy. My goal in writing blackjack for HDi originally was to take advantage of the timing element and remove Read More...
Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 1:45 PM by Amy | 3 Comments
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Sliding Puzzle, Silverlight 1.0 Edition

If you're an HDi developer who spends anytime reading this blog or the MSDN forum , you've probably noticed that I've mentioned Silverlight more than a couple of times recently. Silverlight is, of course, Microsoft's platform for delivering rich interactive Read More...
Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 1:50 PM by Amy | 9 Comments
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Attachment(s): SL_SlidingPuzzle.zip

A Year

Today is my one-year anniversary at Microsoft. There have been a lot of changes for me in the last year and I've learned a lot. So I thought I would be reflective and share some my experiences, observations, and thoughts of the past year here. Okay, it's Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:15 PM by Amy | 5 Comments
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Tokens Gone

Wow. The Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator was WAY more popular than we had imagined. Josh processed thousands of requests and hopefully a huge number of developers are now out there experimenting with interactivity. But, now we have run out of our token allotment Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:35 PM by Amy | 7 Comments
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Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator Request Update

Any of you who made requests for the Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator last week should have received at least an initial email with further instructions on getting access to the emulator support site on http://connect.microsoft.com/ , signing the end user licensing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:19 PM by Amy | 4 Comments
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Overwhelmed

Okay, so it turns out that offering the emulator for free was WAY more popular than we had anticipated. Josh (Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator Support Program Manager) is just a tad bit buried under all the emails right now, so please be patient with the delay Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:50 PM by Amy | 9 Comments
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Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator - Now Free

UPDATE 3/18 : The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is no longer available. For more information, please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/amyd/archive/2008/03/18/tokens-gone.aspx The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator is now available as a free download on Xbox Live Marketplace Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:57 PM by Amy | 26 Comments
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No Regrets

Yesterday was some day, huh? Even though rumors have been rampant for over a week now, it doesn't make it any easier to hear. Toshiba's going to discontinue the HD DVD business. It seems that's all anyone's been talking about. Engadget ran a snarky article Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:32 PM by Amy | 2 Comments
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