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
