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Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 SDK

Brief Description
August 2009
The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Software Development Kit provides libraries and tools for developing Silverlight applications.

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File Name:silverlight_sdk.exe
Version:3.0
Date Published:8/31/2009
Language:English
Download Size:9.5 MB
Estimated Download Time: 24 min 56K

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Overview

The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 SDK contains online documentation, online samples, libraries and tools for developing Silverlight 3 applications.
Usage of the SDK is subject to the SDK License (included in the package).

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System Requirements

  • Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP
No other requirements.

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Instructions

Before installing this Silverlight 3 SDK, please remove any previous Silverlight 3 SDK install.

If you have installed or plan to install Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008, please skip installing the Silverlight SDK directly. Silverlight 3 SDK is installed by Microsoft Silverlight Tools. For more on that click here.

To build Silverlight 3 applications, you can install Silverlight 3 for Developers here.

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Additional Information

If you are interested in installing the Silverlight SDK Standalone Documentation, please go here.

If you plan on building East Asian Silverlight applications, please install East Asian language support on non-East Asian versions of Windows OS older than Windows Vista. (E.g. on Windows XP See - Control Panel | Regional and Language Options | Languages | Supplemental language support)

For links to previous releases of the SDK please visit the Silverlight Release History page located here.

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