The entire team is very proud of launching the Open Source project: Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight.

The purpose of this project is the creation of open source tools integrated with the Eclipse development platform that enable Java developers to use the Eclipse platform to create applications that run on the Microsoft Silverlight runtime platform. Specifically, the project will be an Eclipse plug-in that works with the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) to provide both a Silverlight development environment and greater interoperability between Silverlight and Java, to facilitate the integration of Silverlight-based applications into Java-based web sites and services.

The project has been released as an open source project under EPL 1.0 license and submitted to the Eclipse Foundation: Eclipse Project Proposal.

We are excited to share with you our initial architectural thinking, design & eclipse developer experience in the form of a “Customer Technology Preview” version on the Documentation page. The Alpha version will be available October 14th, 2008 for immediate download from here. Please give it a try and give us your feedback on the bug tracker, and join the discussion on the user forum.

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