I just tried to install the VS2008 SilverlightTools Alpha, but I immediatly ran in to an error. The installation couldn’t start beacause VS2008 was not installed. This suprised me because I just installed thirty minutes before. A some searching I found out that I needed to install the Visual Web Developer.

You can install this by running the VS2008 setup again an choose to add features. Now the Silverlight tools setup runs flawless.

I just installed VS 2008. The first time that I tried to install it, the installation failed. Apparantly the image (3 gb!) was corrupted and therefore the installation had troubles with the cabinet files of the Document Explorer. I downloaded it again and now the installation went flawless.

Tonight I made my first application. I created an rss reader (bases on Scott Guthrie’s code) which uses LINQ. I think that LINQ is one of the most important new features of the .Net 3.5 framework. It is an feature which uses SQL like statements. I saw an demo of it from Erik Meijer on the dutch DevDays and I immediatly loved it.

Now the next step is to try and expand the rss reader with Silverlight….