Jun 3

Written by: Jason Kergosien
6/3/2008 11:34 AM

Recently, I've been digging into Silverlight 2's Deep Zoom technology which is a part of the upcoming release of .NET 3.5 SP1. have been having fun learning how to bounce between the rich XAML UI tools in Expression Blend and the ever functional Visual Studio 2008.

For months now, I've been working with ASP.NET Dynamic Data, which is also a part of the .NET 3.5 SP1 release.  Recently, I upgraded Visual Studio 2008 with the SP1 Beta, which was required to take advantage of the new Wizard in the latest build of Dynamic Data (I'll blog about this in a later post).  The upgrade went great and the wizards were allowed to roam freely across the plentiful app domains of my laptop.  (a little poetical liberty here!).

It was only when I delved back into Deep Zoom that I realized that there were some breaking changes here.  The short story, after blood, sweat, and some serious Googling, is that the VS 2008 SP1 install breaks some of the key components for Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom.  (The ones that I noticed were that VS's Intellisense had no knowledge of the root tags in XAML application  and there was no option for Design when the XAML file was opened.)

The Silverlight team is rolling out Silverlight Tools Beta 2, which is fully compatible with VS 2008 SP1 Beta and is scheduled to be release within a few weeks.  More here.

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