Microsoft Ships Silverlight 4 Development Tools
An add-on for Visual Studio 2010 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 4 and RIA Services
Microsoft made available on Monday Sliverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010, an add-on package for the Visual Studio 2010 IDE providing tooling for the Sliverlight 4 rich Internet plugin-in platform.
Functioning with either the newly released Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express tools, Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio supports capabilities such as Silverlight 4's elevated trust and out-of-browser application functions.
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
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