<p>How does one start development in Silverlight?</p>

<p>Does one need a new IDE? or Visual studio will support?</p>

[{'answer_id': 60628, 'author': 'Gulzar Nazim', 'author_id': 4337, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4337', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Yes there is tooling support for Visual Studio. It is still in Beta though.</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Get Started Building Silverlight 2 Applications</a></p>\n\n<p>1) Install Visual Studio 2008 then Install Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008\nThis add-on to Visual Studio 2008 allows you to use .NET to create Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Web sites. The Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Runtime and the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK are installed as part of this install. For additional information read the overview and the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Readme Notes. Note if you have Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta installed, please see this information for details on installing correctly. </p>\n\n<p>2) Install Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview\nThis is a preview version of Expression Blend for designing Silverlight 2 experiences. </p>\n\n<p>3) Install Deep Zoom Composer\nThis tool allows you to prepare your images for use with the Deep Zoom feature in Silverlight 2. </p>\n\n<p>One thing to watch out for is that Silverlight does not support Synchronous calls to the server. All calls are <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/silverlight-tutorial-part-3-using-networking-to-retrieve-data-and-populate-a-datagrid.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Asynchronous</a> as of <a href="http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com/2008/07/omg-silverlight-asynchronous-is-evil.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this Beta</a>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 60705, 'author': 'rp.', 'author_id': 2536, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2536', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Dan Wahlin has some good Silverlight 2 videos at:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2008/03/07/silverlight-2-0-video-tutorials.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2008/03/07/silverlight-2-0-video-tutorials.aspx</a></p>\n\n<p>They are quite helpful.</p>\n\n<p>rp</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 61955, 'author': 'David Sykes', 'author_id': 259, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/259', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can start developing for Silverlight with a text editor. It might take a little longer to put things together, but you will understand a lot more about what is going on.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 65066, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Most documentation for Silverlight 2.0 example projects along with the source code is to be found on the Web. A goldmine for finding new and relevant stuff is to do a daily look at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170226214423/http://www.geekswithblogs.net:80/WynApseTechnicalMusings/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Link</a>, where links are posted to all the good stuff as it becomes available.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 69620, 'author': 'Jesse Liberty', 'author_id': 11090, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11090', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Let\'s tackle this systematically, because there is a lot to learn and there is a lot of information out there. You may want to start with Microsoft\'s resources first, as they are highly reviewed, and all in one place, and we\'re working hard to create a lot of them to produce a smooth on-ramp. Then, when you are comfortable, you can certainly branch out to other resources as well.</p>\n\n<p>My advice would be to memorize this URL: <a href="http://silverlight.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://silverlight.net</a></p>\n\n<p>Just about everything you\'ll need for some time is there.</p>\n\n<p>Here is how I\'d go about getting started, but there are lots of alternative paths as well...</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Go to the [getting started page][1] but don\'t download everything you see. Focus on just the big green numbers 1 and 2, that is the links to download Visual Studio 2000, the tools for Beta 2 VS 200, and the Beta 1 pack as well as the Blend 2.5 June 2008 preview. </p></li>\n<li><p>Click on Learn on the menu (or click [here][2] ) and watch on lien or download the first video, the Silverlight install experience. </p></li>\n<li><p>Assuming you haven\'t worked in Silverlight or WPF before, I\'d take a look at our [showcase][3] applications, just to get a sense of what can be done with Silverlight. </p></li>\n<li><p>Once you\'ve done that, the order of videos I’ve recommended in the past is in [this blog entry.][4] (which you\'ll see is where i cribbed these notes from)</p></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>Once the basics are under your belt, be sure to check out our expanding collection of [tutorials][5], [videos][6], [webcasts][7], and we have a lot more on the way, including forthcoming books, and a number of alternatives. Also, tomorrow I start a monthly blog cast with [Sparkling Client][8] which I hope will be fun and informative.</p>\n\n<p>Finally, when you have questions, you certainly can ask here (this looks like a tremendous resource!) but if they are Silverlight related you may also want to post them on our [forums][9] </p>\n\n<p>Hope that helps.</p>\n\n<p>-jesse liberty</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 72461, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>My own blog posting on this:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.codersbarn.com/post/2008/05/07/Beginning-Silverlight-First-Steps.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.codersbarn.com/post/2008/05/07/Beginning-Silverlight-First-Steps.aspx</a></p>\n\n<p>Anthony :-)</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 4890112, 'author': 'DOK', 'author_id': 27637, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/27637', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you find yourself here in 2011, when we\'re up to version 4, the place to start is now <a href="http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/" rel="nofollow">Get Started With Silverlight</a></p>\n'}]
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