Microsoft has released a new Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 and Sliverligh SDK for the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 release.

Overview of the Tools:

This package is an add-on to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2. It can be installed either on top of Visual Studio 2008 RTM or Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Beta, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.

This download will install the following:
  • Silverlight 2 Beta 2
  • Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 2
  • KB950630 for Visual Studio 2008 RTM or KB950632 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta
  • Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008
     

Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 includes:

  • Visual Basic and C# Project templates
  • Intellisense and code generators for XAML
  • Debugging of Silverlight applications
  • Web reference support
  • WCF Templates
  • Team Build and command line build support
  • Integration with Expression Blend
  • Enhanced Setup with upgrade support
     

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