Get Started Programming With Silverlight 2

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Useful tips

  • Memorize this URL: http://silverlight.net – from there you can always find everything you need, including all the tools, tutorials, quick starts, videos, discussions, forums, demo programs, and much more
  • Ignore and do not use anything marked Silverlight 1.1 – there are only two versions you care about as of now: Silverlight 1.0 (our release version) and Silverlight 2.0 (currently in Beta).

How to Get Started

1. Navigate to Silverlight.net (did you memorize that URL?) and click on Get Started on the standard menu,

 GetStarted

Follow that by clicking on View Other Versions,

OtherVersions

That will bring you to a link to the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtimes. Click on that link.

LinkToBeta

This will bring you to the installation files for Silverlight 2

Install Files

Install the Silverlight runtime and when installed look in the upper right hand corner where you will want to click on Tools,

Tools

That will bring you to a page full of tools. I've isolated the essential tools that you'll want to download or follow the links to in the next image,

Tools2

Note that this is not how the page appears; I've removed the inessential links and I'm showing only the ones you'll want to get started developing with Silverlight 2.

Getting Started Learning To Code Silverlight Applications

There is a lot of information available for learning to code in Silverlight. Of course, I'll start by recommending that you read through the available Silverlight 2 Tutorials (I'll be adding a new tutorial twice each month) and watching the Silverlight 2 videos 

SL2Video

and then finally, I'd return to the Learn page and work through any material related to Silverlight 2.

Learn 

Don't forget about our Forums which are a great place to ask (and answer!) questions from other Silverlight programmers and Microsoft developers.

Be sure to check (or better, subscribe to!) the blogs (under Community)

Blogs

That will make for a good start, and remember that lots of folks are adding new material every day; I personally will be adding two tutorials, half a dozen videos, a web cast and a couple dozen blog entries every month. So you'll want to stop by pretty often to keep up to date.

About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.
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