Installing Silverlight 1.0 Templates on Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 (Orcas)
If you are playing with Silverlight 1.0 and Visual Studio 2008 like I am, you've probably noticed that the templates won't install without Visual Studio 2005. Luckily there is a good workaround. The templates are a simple .zip file inside the MSI installer that just need to be placed in a specific directory to work..that's all. If you want to walk through specific steps to get the templates to work with Visual Studio 2008, follow these steps: