Developing Silverlight in Visual Studio Express? - c#

Can I develop Silverlight applications in Visual Studio express?
When I start up Visual C# Express 2008 it doesn't give me any options to create Silverlight applications?

The list of things to install to get a working Silverlight development environment up and running is a long one. Here's an ordered list to get a Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight 3 environment going.
1) Visual Web Developer 2008
This is your basic development environment. Visual Web Developer is required since Silverlight 3 applications can be hosted in an ASP.NET website.
2) Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
These tools will reconfigure Visual Studio to work properly with Silverlight projects.
3) Expression Blend 3 (optional)
This is the only pay-product on the list but is also optional. Expression Blend is used for designing the user-interface of your Silverlight projects. Simple UI work can be done in Visual Studio but for anything moderately complex, you will want Expression Blend. There is a trial version.
4) Silverlight Toolkit (optional)
The Silverlight Toolkit contains extra controls and utilities. It is updated more frequently than the core Silverlight binaries.
5) RIA Services (optional)
RIA services is a framework that tries to make server-client development in Silverlight easier. It comes with a lot of plumbing for server communication, data transfer, and validation. RIA services is in beta as of Sep 2009.
6) Silverlight Contrib (optional)
Silverlight contrib is a collection of extra controls and utilities like the Silverlight Toolkit. It is maintained by the community, not by Microsoft, and is meant to overcome some of the shortcomings in Silverlight with free, open-source code.

Looks like you'll need VWD Express. See this page for more info.
This package is an add-on for Visual
Studio 2008 SP1 to provide tooling for
Microsoft Silverlight 3. It can be
installed on top of either Visual
Studio 2008 SP1 or Visual Web
Developer 2008 Express with SP1, and
it provides a Silverlight project
system for developing Silverlight
applications using C# or Visual Basic.

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express has all the tools (built-in) to get started with Silverlight development for free. Here is where you can get it: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Web/

You will need to download the Silverlight SDK to develop for Silverlight.

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visual studio c# extensions missing

I've search the web and found questions from 3-9 years ago.
My problem is that I can't find anywhere the .NET standard or Windows Console Application or Windows Desktop Application or class Library for C#.
When I had Visual Studio 2015 - it was there by default.
Today I have Visual Studio 2017 and window 10 and I can't get my things together.
Are they canceled?
What is the other option?
When I look at my New project library -> Online -> Visual C#
There are many different applications but non of them seems to come from Microsoft.
Meanwhile I've got a .NET Core API Solution template but it has a lot of errors.
Please help
visual studio c# extensions missing
Just like Joe said, you should use Visual Studio installer to install the modules you need. Visual Studio 2017 use the a new way to install Visual Studio! In the newest version, MS have made it easier for you to select and install just the features you need. MS have also reduced the minimum footprint of Visual Studio so that it installs more quickly and with less system impact than ever before.
After the installer is installed, you can use it to customize your installation by selecting the feature sets—or workloads—that you want.
For the .NET core API project, you need install module .NET Core cross-platform development.
Check the document Install Visual Studio 2017 for some more details.
Hope this helps.

Is it possible for me to create a Windows Service in Visual Studio Web 2013?

I don't know why Visual Studio is such that there are a million different versions (Visual Studio for Desktop, Visual Studio for Web, Visual Studio Code, etc.) and each version has a different set of project templates. Anyhow, the problem I'm having is that I'm creating an ASP.NET MVC application through Visual Studio Web 2013 and I want it to be supported by a Windows Service that is started in my App_Start(). The problem of course is that when I read the instructions on https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zt39148a(v=vs.110).aspx there is no Windows Service template on Visual C# when I try to add a new project to my solution.
I understand your web endpoint will be dependent on a Windows Servie, and you want to author that windows service as part of your solution.
Setting aside that VS.net 2015 Community Edition rolls up all the functionality you need. You dont need the project template specifically to create a windows service. It just automatically adds some references and templates into your project. All project templates in VS .net rely on the .net framework - and that isn't any different between one installation and another of VS.net.
In practise you can code a windows service written for .net in Notepad and just call the CSC compiler manually - the version of VS.net just adds some ease-of-use.
There is a set of instructions here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9k985bc9(v=vs.110).aspx from Microsoft which include specific instructions on how to make a windows service without a template.

Getting visual studio 2015 to work with Silverlight 5.0 OOB with RIA services

I have a Silverlight 5.0 OOB application that works in Visual Studio 2010 to 2013. But I cannot get it to work in 2015. I've installed all of the same tools, etc, that required in the earlier versions. But no joy! Any one else have any luck? Or suggestions?
Thx
Here's what I did to get my Silverlight 5 project working in Visual Studio 2015 RC:
Make sure you have WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 installed. Reboot your machine after install.
Open properties page of Silverlight project
Unlink server project by selecting "No Project Set" option under WCF RIA Services Link found on the Silverlight tab of properties page
Recompile (get lots of errors)
Re-link server project
Recompile (no errors)
Run project
Clear browser cache. Important!

Visual studio Express 2013 is not showing web templates

I just installed visual studio 2013 on windows 8.1
When i go to new project then in the windows visual studio is not showing web templates like web pages, MVC 3,4,5 and other stuff like Windows form application and data bases. Visual studio is just showing phone apps development templates. why is this so because i have installed visual studio express with update 2 and i think its latest.
I tried many things like repairing update 2 and installed other asp.net templates for visual studio 2013 but i am not getting on my way...
Please suggest me solutions
The Express versions of Visual Studio come in flavors for desktop and web. It sounds like you might want Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web. If you want the more full featured version, check out the commercial versions here.
There's also a few ways to get the commercial versions for free. If you're a small company, check out the BizSpark program. If you're a student, check out the DreamSpark program.
Both Web and Desktop can be installed at the same time. I have both installed on my Windows Server 2012 Box

Visual Studio Vs Visual Web Developer

I am trying to write a web application using ASP.NET MVC. I prefer C# as the programming language.
Which IDE is better to use for this purpose? Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer?
What are the features of the IDEs? What are the benefits of using one over the other?
Thanks in advance.
As far as I understand, Visual Web Developer (VWD) is simply a free version of the Visual Studio components necessary to develop web based solutions.
Here is a list of features missing from VWD that you get in a Professional edition of Visual Studio 2008 (VS2008). In short, VWD Express 2005
is Not Extensibile with other add-ons or third party tools
Only supports Web site projects (2005). You cannot add a Class
Library project or a Web Controls
Library project to the solution.
UPDATED - VWD 2008 SP1 also allows Web Application and Class Library Projects in the solution.
Lacks the ability to combine Source Code Control
has no Accessibility checker
Lacks ability for automatic generation of resources for
localization
Cannot attach debugger to a process
has no Native code debugging
The obvious advantage of VWD over VS2008 is that it is free and if you can work smart with it given the missing features, it may be the more pragmatic option for you. If those are features that you can't live without, VS2008 may be a wise investment - you also get all of the features missing from other Express products (Visual Basic 2008, Visual C# 2008, etc).
Take a look at MSDN's comparison chart for Visual Studio 2005. I can't find 2008's but would suspect it to be very similar.
Visual Studio will allow you to integerate with Source control and attached debugging to IIS processes.
As a lone developer knocking up some pure ASP.NET-MVC application then Web Developer would do, for serious work you really need studio.
I think you also lack the ability to publish a site without visual studio, you can certainly run a website, but it won't build the binaries for release, with web developer you have to publish the source to iis.

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