When you create a new Silverlight 2 project within Visual
Studio or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (using the recently released Silverlight 2 and VS 2008 Tools for
Silverlight download), you now have the ability to select a ASP.NET Web
Site, ASP.NET Web Application Project and now an ASP.NET MVC Project to host it
within:
Figure 23
When you choose this option, Visual Studio will
automatically copy and deploy/update the Silverlight application into the
ASP.NET MVC application when you make a change and do a build within the
IDE. This makes it easier to start integrating a .NET based Silverlight
front-end (running inside the browser) with an ASP.NET MVC web backend - and
opens up some interesting new possibilities.