Microsoft has released the final version of the Silverlight

[SQLDenis]

Microsoft has released the final version of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010.

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


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

Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... 32daabe1e8

[SQLDenis]

There is also a video on channel 9

Mark Wilson-Thomas joins John to announce the launch of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010! Mark shows off several impressive, new features in the Visual Studio 2010 designer that work for both Silverlight and WPF development. Some key new features that are covered include:

New interactive design surface
Working with Styles and Resources
Go To Value Definition lets you directly locate nested styles
Using the new "Data Can" to pinpoint data hookups
Moving stuff around in complex Grid panels using the new right click "goodies"



watch it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Silverli ... ght-TV-27/

[AlexCuse]

The F# runtime is interesting.

Does anyone know if Silverlight 4 includes support for the DLR? I think this would make for some very interesting possibilities. I know you've been able to embed IronX into silverlight apps for a while, but this kind of thing never seems to catch on in the .net community until it's available right in visual studio.