当您安装了最新发布的Visual Studio 2008 SP1之后，您需要安装Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008以继续对Silverlight 2的开发。(而Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview 仍然继续可以使用。)
这个下载包括了Silverlight 2 beta 2的运行时，SDK, 和VS对Silvrlight的tool支持。
VS的支持来自Cider组。Cider组也提供了VS中对WPF应用程序的设计时支持。在SP1下，我们除了修正了前一版本中的许多bug,还增加了下述新的功能：
- Events tab
- Alphabetical view
- Toolbox for XAML view
- Rename
- Go To Definition/Find All References
- 对TabControl和Expander的设计时支持. 同时您现在可以删除grid line了。
- Snap lines for control margins
- 没有设计时支持的XAML将以Full XAML view方式打开。
详情请看：Community Feedback Important to the WPF Designer for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Nothing can be perfect.
The upcoming Olympic 2008 will be very exciting, but with areas for improvement.
All players will do their best.
To lose is certainly not a disgrace, but to win is still the thing to celebrate.
Practice makes perfect.
The opening ceremony, which is to start in less than 4 hours, has been rehearsed quite a few times by now, after years of preparation and at the cost of roughly 100million US dollars.
What a big project!
Like big software project, isn’t it?
There is a date to hit for release, after years of development and at cost of millions of dollars.
Yet we release the software with bugs, some of which we know only too well.
Our goal is to win the market share, win the hearts of developers.
To win is the thing to celebrate.
People are entitled to different opinions.
Olympic is not without criticism.
But, after all is said, Olympic is a get-together party for players and people around the world.
A celebration that defines strength, speed, skill, perseverance and beauty in human nature
Let the party begin!