Micorsoft has published its Web IDE installation called "Microsoft Web Platform Installer", which includes the latest Silverlight3 Tools and development environment. But many fresher are still confused about deploying the development environment for Silverlight. As I’ve experienced a week’s terrible deploying, let me share the experience with you to facilitate your trip.
First, download Microsoft Web Platform Installer named wpilauncher.exe. Click the picture below to begin downloading. But it is just a downloader, that is, on-line installation.
Run the wpilauncher.exe and follow the prompts. If you’ve installed VS2008 you can skip this step.
Choose the two options Tools as below.
When setting is OK the installation would show a list of concerned information.
If you prepare to install SQL Server you need to set the password for the SQL user.
Now what you do is to wait.
When successfully installed, comes out the picture following.
Open the VS2008 or Web Developer 2008 you can see Silverlight templates.
At this time the Silverlight background coding environment has been established. For interface design you can setup Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow.
For off-line you can also turn to Microsoft website to download all required components. But do remember this: all the components including VS must have the same language. For example, if you have setup the Chinese version of VS2008 you should install the Chinese version of Silverlight 3 Tools, and others. Strongly I recommend the English version because it may more convenient. Moreover, it is necessary to setup a series with the same Silverlight version. The last important thing is that your VS2008 must be updated to SP1 before deploying Silverlight. So, you’d better download Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 or Web Developer with SP1 instead of VS2008.
Sometimes one may fail to setup Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer because the web develop components cannot be installed. If you used to install Office2007 but have uninstalled it now, then it is most possible that the left Office 2007 setup files cause the VS setup failure, for the two are not so compatible with each other, that is a low-end bug for Microsoft products. But don’t worry, just clean up all the left Office setup files and install VS2008 again. You can download Microsoft’s Windows Clean Up wizard to clear. Another method is to remove the original Office 2007 and reinstall it, then setup VS2008.
Wish you a wonderful Silverlight trip!
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