Installation

In this book, we are going to deal with Silverlight 5. The tool that Microsoft recommends for development is Visual Studio 2010. Therefore, we will have to install the following software:

All of these individual links are available at http://www.silverlight.NET/getstarted/.

Note

In case you cannot install Visual Studio 2010, the 2008 version of the product will provide you with an interaction limited to Silverlight 3, hence you will not be able to follow all of the contents of this book.