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Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010

Brief Description
Add-on and pre-requisite files for Visual Studio 2010 to develop Silverlight 4 and RIA Services applications

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Quick Details
File Name:Silverlight4_Tools.exe
Version:30319.352
Date Published:9/2/2010
Language:English
Download Size:35.1 MB
Estimated Download Time: 1 hr 26 min 56K

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Overview

This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2010 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 4 and RIA Services. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. It extends existing Silverlight 3 features and multitargeting capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 to also create applications for Silverlight 4 using C# or Visual Basic.

Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 includes several features:
  • Support for targeting Silverlight 4 in the Silverlight designer and project system
  • RIA Services application templates and libraries
  • Support for Silverlight 4 elevated trust and out-of-browser applications and other new Silverlight 4 features, including
    • Working with Implicit Styles
      • Go To Value Definition lets you directly get to styles from your page
      • Style Intellisense lets you easily modify styles
    • Working with Data Source Window outputs
      • Drag and drop from the data source window and see the data can, from which you can easily select and modify your data source information
      • Add, remove, and re-sort DSW outputs using the Grid Row and Column context menu
      • Move your controls around the form and change alignments in bulk using the margin editor
      • Add sample data to see item templates and bindings at design time
    • Working with Silverlight 4 Out-of-browser applications
      • Automatically launch and debug your OOB app from inside the IDE
      • Specify XAP signing for trusted OOB apps
      • Set the OOB window characteristics

This download will install all components necessary for Silverlight 4 and RIA Services development:
  • Silverlight 4 developer runtime
  • Silverlight 4 SDK (software development kit)
  • Update for Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Web Developer Express 2010 (KB982218)
  • Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
  • WCF RIA Services V1.0 for Silverlight 4
  • F# Runtime for Silverlight 4


Please note, if you are looking for the Silverlight 5 Beta Tools installer you can find them here.

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System Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 3
    • Windows 7
    • Windows Vista Service Pack 2
    • Windows XP Service Pack 3
  • Visual Studio Requirements:
    • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with the Visual Web Developer feature
    • Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express

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Instructions

Before installing Silverlight 4 Tools, you must:
  • Install Visual Studio 2010, and the Visual Web Developer feature must be included, or
  • Install Visual Web Developer 2010 Express.
The Silverlight 4 Tools package here will uninstall and update earlier Silverlight 4 & Tools components as necessary.
Notes:
  • This tools package will not work with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, Beta 2, or RC releases. Pre-release editions of Visual Studio 2010 are no longer supported.

Uninstall the Silverlight 4 Tools Update

If you wish to remove Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 4 Tools update from your computer, you must manually remove the components that were installed:
  • Microsoft Silverlight 4 Developer Runtime
  • Microsoft Silverlight 4 SDK
  • Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
  • WCF RIA Services V1.0 for Silverlight 4
  • F# Runtime for Silverlight 4


Note: if you wish to remove Silverlight 4 from your computer, you should uninstall all related components, including the developer runtime, the SDK, Tools, F# Runtime, and RIA Services. You may leave the Update for Visual Studio 2010 (KB982218) because it contains additional bug fixes and improvements in the WPF & Silverlight tools in Visual Studio.

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