Silverlight and VS 2005 or VS 2008 Express Edition

Question

Is is possible to create silverlight content in C# using Visual Studio 2005 Professional or Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition? I can't find an answer on Microsoft's web site. Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

I think you should take a look at Visual Web Developer Express and the Silverlight Tools

Answer 2

2005 i think you can only create 1.0 project ; and yes you can create SL 2.0 projects in VS 2008 express(visual web developer) but you will need SP1 and the tools everything you need is here

Answer 3

I belive you can with 2008 express.

Make sure you install SP1 to 2008 then install everything else from here (it has the SP1 download as well)

Answer 4

Yes if the express edition is Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. Here is a quote from this blog post from the guy who runs the development team for Silverlight at Microsoft:

Developers can use either VS 2008 or the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express to open and edit Silverlight 2 projects, and get a powerful code-focused .NET development environment.