{"id":4944,"date":"2007-07-27T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/webdev\/2007\/07\/27\/visual-studio-2008-beta-2-silverlight\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T15:44:00","slug":"visual-studio-2008-beta-2-silverlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/visual-studio-2008-beta-2-silverlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 &amp; Silverlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, today has been a busy day in Redmond uploading new bits to the download servers. The following are now available for download:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=89146&amp;clcid=0x409\">Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/express\/future\/bb421473.aspx\">Visual Web Developer Orcas Beta 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/silverlight\/bb419317.aspx\">Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=89149&amp;clcid=0x409\">Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=89147&amp;clcid=0x409\">Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July 2007)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more blog posts in the next week or so showing off the new features, so download and tell us what you think.<\/p>\n<p>IMPORTANT RELNOTE: If you are doing ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 development with VS 2005,&nbsp;you should run this <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=95792\"><font color=\"#0065e2\">script<\/font><\/a> after installing&nbsp;VS 2008&nbsp;Beta2 to ensure that the installation of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 will not affect&nbsp;development&nbsp;in VS 2005.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>You should do this <i>immediately<\/i> after installing VS Beta 2.&nbsp; See <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/scottgu\/archive\/2007\/07\/26\/vs-2008-and-net-3-5-beta-2-released.aspx\">this<\/a> post for more details.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, today has been a busy day in Redmond uploading new bits to the download servers. The following are now available for download: Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2 Visual Web Developer Orcas Beta 2 Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[4,7265,31,7273,7278,147,7267,7268,7269],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspnet","tag-net","tag-announcements","tag-asp-net","tag-orcas","tag-silverlight","tag-visual-studio","tag-vwd","tag-web","tag-web-2-0"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, today has been a busy day in Redmond uploading new bits to the download servers. The following are now available for download: Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2 Visual Web Developer Orcas Beta 2 Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}