Silverlight 4 is Now Available
You can get Silverlight 4 now online at Get Microsoft Silverlight. Tim Heuer has put together a blog post that describes the tools that are available,
See Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement on Tim Heuer’s blog.
Here’s some helpful quick update information for you:
- Download the bits
- Understanding what is in the bits
- RIA Services
- Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools
- VS2008 and VS2010 on same machine
- Other resources
Also see Business-Ready Silverlight 4 Ships April 15.
Get Started with Silverlight 4
See the Silverlight 4 training course on Channel 9. The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper that explains all of the new Silverlight 4 features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4. The business applications course includes 8 modules with extensive hands on labs as well as 25 accompanying videos that walk you through key aspects of building a business application with Silverlight. Key aspects in this course are working with numerous sandboxed and elevated out of browser features, the new RichTextBox control, implicit styling, webcam, drag and drop, multi touch, validation, authentication, MEF, WCF RIA Services, right mouse click, and much more!
Bruce D. KyleISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation