This archive contains a few tools that make using
and developping Silverlight apps, under Visual Studio 
Express 2008, easier. The new version contains tool
that support VB.Net.

1- I copied the four files Microsoft.* to the directory 
C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\Silverlight
(under Vista). These files were extracted from the tool
package for the full Visual studio Edition.

After doing this, I was able to use msbuild to compile most
Silverlight apps downloaded from the web (instead of getting
a "not supported" message in VSCE). Just open a cmd shell,
and type "msbuild" in the directory that contains the .csproj
or .vbproj file for the Silverlight app.


2- The file SilverlightExpress.zip is a project template
for a Silverlight app in C# and SilverlightExpressVB.zip
is a project template for Silverlight in VB. If you copy these
in your "Visual Studio 2008/Templates/ProjectTemplates" 
directory, you should be able to create a new Silverlight
project from the menu "File/New Project".  

I open the XAML file using the XML editor (ie right-click
the file name in the Solution window and chose XML editor).


3- To test your new project, I've included the binary of the
Cassini webserver. I just double-click the executable then
copy the project directory path to "Application Directory"
textbox and press "Enter" twice (once to get the webserver
running and then go the "http://localhost").


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