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Silverlight 3: AVAILABLE!

March 18th, 2009 . by Tobias

Looks like Silverlight 3 is rolled-out: Runtime, SDK and documentation are already available for download. See the Client / Server libs?

Runtime:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=143433

Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=11dc7151-dbd6-4e39-878f-5081863cbb5d

SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d09b6ecf-9a45-4d99-b752-2a330a937bc4!

Documentation:
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc838158(vs.96).aspx.

Blend 3 Preview:
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/blendpreview

SL3 SDK 

 Best regards,
 - tobias


One of the worst(*) bugs in VS2008SP1 finally fixed

March 14th, 2009 . by Tobias

As I work with a highly customized Visual Studio 2008 environment a bug introduced with SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 was one of the worst in history (for me): VS Dev Environment crash after undocking windows or changing layouts .

In case you are like me and did not have the luck to find this "not really visible fix"(tm) yet just click here and you'll back to your normal-customized VS interface (yeah, multi-mon makes sense again, even for VS :D) 

Best regards,
 - t 

(*) = one of the worst bugs for me!


Silverlight 3: Someone pulled the switch too early?

March 14th, 2009 . by Tobias

SL3

This could be just a little reminder on Silverlight 3 (you know MIX 09 yadda, yadda, yadda) but perhaps it can be a little bit more for you.

Check out any download in Microsofts Download Center for Silverlight 2 and you will see something like the following on the "Thank You" page which appears after the download itself.

 Silverlight 3 Tools

Clicking on this link brings you to a "coming soon" page. Might this be true for everybody? Perhaps you can just adjust you user-agent string to get access? I don't know. If you have access to MS' intranet, it looks like you can download SL3 Tools from here (found via this one).

Sorry, just a litte teaser ;) And look out for LOB functionality in SL3.

Best regards,
 - tobias