Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 RTW Now Available

The final version of the Silverlight 4 Tools plug-in for Visual Studio is now available for download.

Please proceed to the Getting Started page at Silverlight.NET to proceed with the download or click here for the direct link.

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

Comments

Anonymous
May 25, 2010
blogs.msdn.com/.../final-release-of-silverlight-4-tools-for-visual-studio-2010-is-now-available.aspx has a full announcement of the new features, together with a short video that runs through many of them. Check it out! Mark