This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2010 RC to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 4 and RIA Services. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2010 RC or Visual Web Developer 2010 Express RC. 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 RC 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