Using Silverlight with an Apple Mac? Why? Give Expression Blend a try

Wow, can a Mac shop do silverlight development?  Is Expression Blend better than Flash?  Zoom over to the URL to read an older article about a Mac only shop that gave Silverlight a try.  https://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/ee662147

Now that Silverlight has improved since then, as well as the Expression Blend tool, you can give Expression Blend 4 via the no cost

• Windows Phone 7.1 SDK RC
• If you have Windows Phone 7.1 SDK Beta, make sure to uninstall that first

What do you get?

The Windows Phone SDK includes the following

• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 (RC)
• Windows Phone Emulator (RC)
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Assemblies (RC)
• Silverlight 4 SDK and DRT
• Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Extensions for XNA Game Studio 4.0
• Microsoft Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone 7
• Microsoft Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone OS 7.1
• WCF Data Services Client for Window Phone
• Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows Phone

And if you are wondering if the documentation is still a confusing maze of old training material with the latest, the answer is yes.  I use the following links:

Blend:

• https://www.microsoft.com/expression/resources/BlendTraining/ 
• https://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 04, 2011
  Thanks, Great!

• Anonymous
  October 19, 2011
  Ehsan, Thank you for the comment!