Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010

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.

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