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There is a "easy to create Silverlight development environment" article in the Silver China Network, which is believed to have helped a lot of Silverlight novices, but this article describes the Silverlight 3 development environment, which is based on the above update. Help newcomers easily create a Silverlight 4 development environment. To create a Silverlight 4 development environment, Microsoft offers the simplest way to use the Web Platform Installer for "One-click Installation"
After downloading the installation, Web Platform installer automatically detects which software you have installed
If you need to install a new developer Tools, just select the item and the Install button below prompts for the next step. Typically, the Silverlight 4 development environment needs to include several development tools: 1. Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web developer 2010 express during installation, the. NET Framework 4 will be installed at the same time, alternatively, you can download the. NET Framework 4 installation separately, 2. After you install the development tools, you need to download and install the Silverlight 4 tools for Visual Studio 2010 development Package. Download Link: Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010; After installation is complete, the Add Silverlight 4 project development template will be automatically updated in Visual Studio 2010, as well as the Silverlight 4 SD K and related development environments. The following is what is included in the development package: Silverlight 4 developer Runtime Silverlight 4 SDK (software Development kit) Update for Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express (KB982218) Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio, WCF RIA Ser Vices V1.0 for Silverlight 4 F # Runtime for Silverlight 4 3. For Silverlight artist developers, you need to download expression Studio 4, because only blend 4 supports Silverlight 4 project development, and blend 4 and visual Studio 2010 are seamlessly combined, using blend 4 you can easily create and modify custom control styles to develop a professional Silverlight project interface. 4. Finally, it is recommended that you install the Silverlight 4 Toolkit control package, which is a Silverlight control extension package developed by Microsoft.Contains dozens of types of extended controls that are easy to develop for Silverlight projects, and that are open source projects where developers can easily modify controls and create custom control effects. Install the above tools, the Silverlight 4 development environment has been created, if you use the Web Platform Installer, you can choose the above related options for one-click installation, you can develop the Silverlight 4 project. In addition, Microsoft has launched the Silverlight 4 official version of the offline Help document, which contains all the technical knowledge of Silverlight 4, is the developer's essential information, recommended download. Microsoft Silverlight 4 offline documentation (English)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=zh-cn&FamilyID= B6127b9b-968c-46c2-8cb6-d228e017ad74
Microsoft Silverlight 4 online Help documentation (MSDN)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/cc838158 (vs.95). aspx if you need to create a Silverlight 2/3 development environment, please visit this tutorial. The development of Silverlight requires more developer support, join the Silverlight development ranks.