teh

This evening I thought I'd spend an hour and see if I couldn't make a lame Silverlight project just for the sake of doing it.  Plus it would be more productive than playing a game.

So I fired up Visual Studio 2008 and went to create a Silverlight project, but there was none to be found.  I went and downloaded the Silverlight 1.0 SDK, but still nothing.  It seems that version is for working with VS 2005.  I was trying to avoid installing any beta Silverlight stuff, but I ended up grabbing the Silverlight 2 Tools Alpha.  This did allow me to create a Silverlight project.

Seeing some XAML, I went towards the end, after all the declarations and such, and typed"Hello".  Just as a test.  Went to compile...error.  So I erased that, found <TextBox> using Intellisense, and put "Hello" between the tags.  Still no loving.  So I found the Text attribute, and put "Hello" as the value of the Text attribute.  Then I got different compile errors.  Specifically, 17 of them, mostly "The type or namespace name 'Windows' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?)" type errors.

 I think I've seen this before, and seem to remember fixing it by adding a reference to something, but I couldn't find anything on Google this time.  So I'm still stuck there, and will be until I either find a solution or convince myself it's not just due to alpha version tools.  Maybe I'll just go play a game instead...