Sunday, 6 June 2010
Silverlight 3 and 4 development setup
This post is more a instruction list for myself than anything else. Microsoft keeps changing the instructions on silverlight.net and it gets harder each time to find the steps needed to setup a working silverlight 3 and 4 development environment. This is how I setup mine. These steps give you a silverlight 3 and 4 development enviroment with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2010. I do not yet have license for Visual Studio 2010 and am thus using the free versions. If everything goes to plan, this setup will give you the ability to develop for Silverlight 3 with VS2008 and both silverlight 3 and 4 with VWD2010.
The steps:
1) Install Visual Studio 2008.
2) Install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (service pack).
3) Install Silverlight 3 tools. This installs, the Silverlight 3 SDK, Silverlight 3 and tools for Visual Studio 2008. This can be found here.
4) We need to now install an update for the Silverlight 3 SDK as described here. We basically need to un-install build 3.0.40624 of the Silverlight 3 SDK and install the updated 3.0.40818 version available here.
5) Install Visual Studio Web Developer Express 2010. Optionally install Visual C# Express 2010.
6) Now install the Silverlight 4 tools, available here.
Thats it this is all I do for my development environment. I'll write a new post when I get VS2010 and the Expression Suite and update my environment.
Update:
7) An update for the runtime is available, as described here. The direct link to the developer version for Windows is available here.
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