As part of being a Program Manager at Microsoft, I am responsible for talk with and helping customers for a few technologies.  Of following set:

• Silverlight Toolkit
• Silverlight Data & Data-Binding
• Silverlight Parser
• Silverlight Line of Business
• PivotViewer (v1 and v2)

I find that 90% of my customer emails want information/help/advice on PivotViewer.  While using the new version is really simple, I find there is still very little good documentation for how to use it and some of the best practices around it.  To correct that, I am kicking off a new series of blog posts all about using PivotViewer. 

Why am I doing this now?  Well I am headed back to Chicago to pack-up my house and move my ‘stuff’ to Redmond and while I am sitting there watching my life get put into boxes and loaded onto a truck, I figured this would be a good time to complete some work on this subject.  Also, I can then just point customers at work to my blog instead of having to type up the same thing 10 times a week =)

What You Will Need

• Visual Studio 2010 (any version should do it)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1
• Silverlight 5 RC Runtime for Windows
• Silverlight 5 RC Tools for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
• Silverlight 5 RC SDK

Install all of the above (in the order shown is a good idea) and off we go:

PivotViewer V2 Series, Part 2: Creating a Project