VS2010 SP1 New Features: Silverlight 4 Support

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Versions: 2010 SP1

Languages: C#, VB

Code: vstipProj0031

 

 

Before we get started with today’s tip, just a little house-cleaning:  I am a couple of posts behind on the blog and will be catching up this week with an additional post on Thursday.  Also, I have decided to stop producing videos for the time being.  I am re-evaluating if the videos make sense or if the time is better spent on more blog posts.  And, with that said, on with today’s blog post!

 

 

When you create a new Silverlight Project in Visual Studio 2010 with Service Pack 1 you now have support for Silverlight 4 included. Specifically, this “[…] adds support for targeting Silverlight 4 in the Silverlight designer and project system. This also provides support for the new Silverlight 4 technology improvements. This new technology includes working with implicit styles and Silverlight 4 Out-of-Browser (OOB) applications. You can automatically start and debug your OOB application from inside the IDE, specify XAP signing for trusted OOB applications, and set the OOB window characteristics.”

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/983509

 

When you go to create a new Silverlight Project you may see the following dialog if you don’t have the latest developer runtime version installed:

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Silverlight 4 is now the default version when you create new projects. You can choose a different version when you create most Silverlight projects:

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In the case of Silverlight Business Application and WCF RIA Services Class Library projects you will have to go to the project properties on the Silverlight tab to change your version:

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