Silverlight 2 projects can't be created with the Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008. When Visual Studio 2010 is released, you will be able to build both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 with the same IDE. But for the immediate future, you will need Silverlight 3 Tools to build Silverlight 3 projects and Silverlight 2 Tools to build Silverlight 2 projects.
If you already have Silverlight 2 Tools installed, you can easily upgrade to Silverlight 3 Tools by running the Silverlight 3 installer. To downgrade from Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 2 tools, you will need to uninstall "Microsoft Silverlight" and "Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008" from Add/Remove programs before re-installing Silverlight 2 Tools.
If you plan to switch frequently between Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3, the utility below should make the process a little faster.
Setup
To install Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio
To install Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio
To install Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Web Developer Express
To install Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Web Developer Express
To downgrade a project from Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 2
Silverlight 3 Tools Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download . This installer includes:
With the release of Silverlight 3 Beta, you’ll may want to try out the new features. Unfortunately, Silverlight
Nice work. I will try it soon. But how much time does it cost to switch between environments?
Well, that all depends on how fast your system is. It will take a couple of minutes. But, this skips the installation of the patch and the SDK which are the most time consuming parts of the install so it cuts down considerably the install time. The SDKs can both be installed at the same time so you don't need to reinstall those. And the patch that ships with the SL3 tools works with the SL2 tools, so no need to reinstall that either.
Will there be any reason to support Silverlight 2 targets within Visual Studio 2010? Why not only the latest SL is to be supported?
Thank you for nice tool!!
But, Isn't not "silverlight_UninstallSLTools3B1Vwdx.exe" but "VWDX_SilverlightTools_Setup.exe -u" better?
Because Translate Wizard is opened when I open Silverlight 2 Project.
小町えんじぇるです。こんにちは。 前回 はExpression Blend 3 Preview（英語版）をインストールしましたが、今回は、 Silverlight 3 Beta1（日本語版） をインストールしてみたいと思います
@Denis
The motivation in having VS 2010 support multiple versions of Silverlight is to support future versions. So, when Silverlight 4 is released, you will install the Silverlight 4 SDK and VS 2010 will recognize it and let you target that version.
Regarding Silverlight 2 development after SL3 has released, some enterprise developers need to support older versions of the platform if their administrator is slow to do the runtime updates.
@Koguma
This script will work with the Japanese version of the tools if you download the Japanese installers for Silverlight Tools
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Awesome trick...thanks for sharing Amy! It's working great so far on my machine.
If you’re building Silverlight applications and need to be able to run Silverlight 2 and Silverlight
在同一台机器上同时安装Silverlight2与Silverlight3beta如果你已经开始做Silverlight2的项目，又急于去体验Silverlight3beta。那么请看...
如果你已经开始做Silverlight 2 的项目，又急于去体验Silverlight 3 beta，那么请看看这里。
URL : http://blogs.msdn.com/amyd/archive/2009/03/18/s... I want to start living side-by-side with Sivlerlight