The WPF and Silverlight Designer Team is delighted to be able to tell you that the final release of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is now available!Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 includes many essential features to help you work with your Silverlight 4 applications: Support for targeting Silverlight 4 in the Silverlight designer and project system
RIA Services application templates and libraries to simplify access to your data services (check out this Silverlight.tv video and whitepaper giving full details)
Support for Silverlight 4 elevated trust and out-of-browser applications
Enhanced support for other new Silverlight 4 features, including:
Working with Implicit Styles
Go To Value Definition - navigate directly from controls on your page to styles that are applied to them.
Style Intellisense - easily modify styles you already have in XAML
Working with Data Source Window outputs
Data Source Selector - easily select and modify your data source information
Grid Row and Column context menu - Add, remove, and re-sort DSW outputs and other Grid layouts
Thickness Editor for editing Margins, Padding etc
Sample Data Support - see your item templates and bindings light up 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
Please Note: many of the new designer features work well with WPF as well as Silverlight projects, so this download is definitely recommended for Visual Studio 2010 WPF designer users too. Read more: WPF & Silverlight Designer
RIA Services application templates and libraries to simplify access to your data services (check out this Silverlight.tv video and whitepaper giving full details)
Support for Silverlight 4 elevated trust and out-of-browser applications
Enhanced support for other new Silverlight 4 features, including:
Working with Implicit Styles
Go To Value Definition - navigate directly from controls on your page to styles that are applied to them.
Style Intellisense - easily modify styles you already have in XAML
Working with Data Source Window outputs
Data Source Selector - easily select and modify your data source information
Grid Row and Column context menu - Add, remove, and re-sort DSW outputs and other Grid layouts
Thickness Editor for editing Margins, Padding etc
Sample Data Support - see your item templates and bindings light up 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
Please Note: many of the new designer features work well with WPF as well as Silverlight projects, so this download is definitely recommended for Visual Studio 2010 WPF designer users too. Read more: WPF & Silverlight Designer