Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is At Last Final Version

We were been looking forward to See the Silvelight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 will hit the Road, since the release of Silverlight 4.0 RTM in April 12th 2010.

For those who are not aware of Silverlight 4.0 Tools for Visual Studio 2010, are a Add-on and pre-requisite files for Visual Studio 2010 to develop Silverlight 4 and RIA Services applications.

When Silverlight 4.0 and Visual Studio was released to manufacture(RTM), after few days Microsoft has released an RC2(Release-Candidate-2) version of Silverlight 4.0 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 RC-2, becase microsoft want to make sure this Add-In works perfectly with Visual Studio 2010.  So after a month later on 13th May 2010, Microsoft has announced the final version of  Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010.

You can download the Silverlight 4.0 Tools for Visual Studio  here download link

Quick Details

File Name:	Silverlight4_Tools.exe
Version:	30319.166
Date Published:	5/13/2010
Language:	English
Download Size:	32.5 MB

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.
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

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WCF RIA Services V1.0 for Silverlight 4 and Visual Studio 2010

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