A Dullard's Guide : Silverlight

Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 3 SDK

Amy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:54:09 GMT

Visual Web Developer in Visual Studio 2010 has support in box for Silverlight 3 development and includes the Silverlight 3 developer runtime and Silverlight 3 SDK build 3.0.40818. Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 3 included...(read more)

Upgrading a Web Project from Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3

Amy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT

When upgrading a project from Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3 Beta, the asp:Silverlight and object tags in the solution's website are not modified. The minRuntimeVersion attribute of the object tag and the MinimumVerison attribute of asp:Silverlight control...(read more)

Silverlight Tools Release Candidate Now Available!

Amy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:55:00 GMT

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)

Problems Creating a New Silverlight Project after Tools Installation

Amy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:41:00 GMT

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)

Silverlight Tools Must be Updated After Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Amy — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT

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)

Blackjack, Silverlight 1.0 Edition, Part I

Amy — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:45:00 GMT

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)

Sliding Puzzle, Silverlight 1.0 Edition

Amy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:50:00 GMT

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)

Tokens Gone

Amy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:35:00 GMT

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)