Silverlight Feature Requests

Currently, there is not a general location to log Silverlight feature requests (we’re considering adding something on Silverlight.net for this). Given the lack of a central spot, I’ve taken a few threads on the Silverlight forums related to a Silverlight wish list as well as some comments from ScottGu’s Silverlight 2 blog post and Scott Barnes’ blog and aggregated the requests into a single list with frequency counts. I left off things that have already been announced in Silverlight 3 but left on others that have not yet been announced. There are numerous reasons why something will or will not appear in the next version of Silverlight including customer demand, time to implement, business need, security concerns, performance concerns, ability to implement consistently cross browser and cross platform, etc. Therefore, items at the top of the list below won’t necessarily appear in the next version of Silverlight – however, it’s likely we’re engaged in solving those problems in one way or another. Net result is the Silverlight product team does look at these requests and they do have some impact on shaping future Silverlight platforms.



Feel free to continue to make requests and I’ll try and update the counts every month or so. One thing that would help for requests is some insight into the scenario for the request (if it’s not obvious). For example, if you need UDP, include details on your scenario for UDP (e.g. P2P game and if so, we may be able to solve that with a more targeted API). One area to call out specifically for scenarios is requests for WPF and Silverlight compatibility. In general, if you want a WPF feature in Silverlight, call that out as a Silverlight feature request vs. a compatibility request (e.g. want triggers in Silverlight). If you have a need to share resources between Silverlight and WPF, call that out as compatibility and let us know what you’re doing that requires shared resources (to better help us determine how to focus our work in this area).

SL2Beta1 Installation Failed

If you will install SL2Beta1 tools for vs2008.
You may get the following error.
An Error Has Occurred:Silverlight Tools cannot be installed because one or more of the following conditions is true:1. Visual Studio 2008 RTM is not installed.2. The Web Authoring feature of Visual Studio is not installed.3. A previous version of the Silverlight Runtime is installed.4. A previous version of the Silverlight SDK is installed.5. The Visual Studio Update KB949325 is installed.6. A previous version of Silverlight Tools is installed.To continue, please install or uninstall the appropriate products and run this installer again.

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=331756

SilverLight2 SDK has been launched

SilverLight2 Beta1 tools for vs2008 has been launched.
You can download it from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&displaylang=en

also you want to know more about SL2 from scott - GM of microsoft.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx