Silverlight 4 Release Candidate

At the MIX10 conference last week was the announcement that the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate was now available for download. You'll need Visual Studio 2010 to use the developer tools for Silverlight 4.

• Silverlight 4 Windows Runtime
• Silverlight 4 Mac Runtime
• Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 includes the developer runtime and SDK
• Breaking changes and compatibility

Networking and data improvements that you might be interested in include:

- Retrieving a socket cross-domain policy file from an HTTP address

Enhancements to the out of browser full trust mode  

• Full trust mode for using sockets without a cross-domain policy file
• Sending HTTP requests with the Accept-Language header
• Support for XPath expressions