Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 3.0. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 or Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1, and it provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.

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The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Microsoft Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 - Version: 30730.126
Add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for developing Silverlight 3 applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9442b0f2-7465-417a-88f3-5e7b5409e9dd&DisplayLang=en
Download -> Silverlight3_Tools.exe

This download will install the following:

  • Silverlight 3 developer runtime, Silverlight 3 software development kit, KB967143 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and/or KB967144 for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1, Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and/or Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with SP1.

Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 includes:

  • Visual Basic and C# Project templates, Intellisense and code generators for XAML, Debugging of Silverlight applications, Remote debugging of Silverlight applications for Mac, Web reference support, WCF Templates, Team Build and command line build support, Support for cached transparent platform extensions and Support for Silverlight 3 Out-of-Browser applications.

Before installing Silverlight Tools:

Microsoft Silverlight 3 Resources & Weblinks