Silverlight 2.0 beta 2 Released

Last week (June 06, 2008), Microsoft announced the release of Silverlight 2.0 beta 2.

Visit the Silverlight SDK blog for whats new in beta 2?, Breaking changes from beta 1 to beta 2, etc.

Other downloads:
- Download Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 (silverlight_chainer.exe) (Includes: Silverlight 2 Beta 2, Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 2, KB950630 for VS2008 RTM / KB950632 for VS2008 SP1 Beta, Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008
- Download Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Documentation
- Also, download recent release of Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview

Regards, Neville (http://nevilledubash.blogspot.com/)

Integrate SharePoint with Silverlight

In my research to add silverlight capabilities to sharepoint/moss. I got an interesting link called Silverlight BluePrint for SharePoint. This link has samples with videos and source code.

Visit the site for more details http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint/.

Regards, Neville (http://nevilledubash.blogspot.com/)

Send an e-mail from a Silverlight Application

We had a requirement to send an e-mail in our silverlight application. I found a gr8 article + source code from Michael Sync on this subject. I recommend you go through the same in case you wish to "Send an e-mail from a Silverlight Application".

Article link

Regards, Neville (http://nevilledubash.blogspot.com/)

Opening a Silverlight 1.1 project in VS2008 after installing Silverlight 2.0

I see a lot of questions on the forums around:
Opening a Silverlight 1.1 project in VS2008 after installing Silverlight 2.0
Below are some of the steps followed by me to resolve this issue:

1. Open the Silverllight 1.1 solution file
2. Scroll down until you find the Import Project= element that points to the targets file.
   All you should have to do is replace "VisualStudio9.0\Silverlight\"
   with
   "Silverlight\v2.0\"
   Save the Solution file and then reload the project.
3. Next steps are to get the right APIs referenced. You'll see that the old ones are no longer valid (the warning icon). You can delete them. In there place you need to references to: System [in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\2.0.30226.2]

System.Core [in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\2.0.30226.2]

System.Windows [in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\2.0.30226.2]

System.Windows.Browser [in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\2.0.30226.2]

System.Windows.Controls [in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v2.0\Libraries\Client]

System.Windows.Controls.Extended [in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v2.0\Libraries\Client]

System.XML [in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\2.0.30226.2]

The above are the steps the help you open the Silverlight 1.1 project after installing Silverlight 2.0.

Other deprecated features will still have to manually migrated.

Regards, Neville (http://nevilledubash.blogspot.com/)