In addition to releasing the upcoming Beta1 of Silverlight 2, we are also going to ship Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio tool support for targeting it. Now that we've finished covering the basics - let's explore some of the tools we can use to be even more productive. In this first set of Silverlight tutorials I didn't use a visual design tool to build the UI, and instead focused on showing the underlying XAML UI markup (which I think helps to explain the core programming concepts better). Part 8: Creating a Digg Desktop Version of our Application using WPF.Part 7: Using Templates to Customize Control Look and Feel.Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Details Scenarios.Part 5: Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data.Part 4: Using Style Elements to Better Encapsulate Look and Feel.Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid.Part 1: Creating 'Hello World' with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008.In the post I linked to some end-to-end tutorials I've written that walk through some of the fundamental programming concepts behind Silverlight and WPF, and demonstrate how to use them to build a 'Digg Search Client' application using Silverlight: Last week I did a First Look at Silverlight 2 post that talked about the upcoming Silverlight 2 Beta1 release. NET Community News Silverlight Visual Studio WPF
