Final Release of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is now available!

The WPF and Silverlight Designer Team is delighted to be able to tell you that the final release of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is now available!

Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 includes many essential features to help you work with your Silverlight 4 applications:

• Support for targeting Silverlight 4 in the Silverlight designer and project system
• RIA Services application templates and libraries to simplify access to your data services (check out this Silverlight.tv video and whitepaper giving full details)
• Support for Silverlight 4 elevated trust and out-of-browser applications
• Enhanced support for other new Silverlight 4 features, including:
  • Working with Implicit Styles
    • Go To Value Definition - navigate directly from controls on your page to styles that are applied to them.
    • Style Intellisense - easily modify styles you already have in XAML
  • Working with Data Source Window outputs
    • Data Source Selector - easily select and modify your data source information
    • Grid Row and Column context menu - Add, remove, and re-sort DSW outputs and other Grid layouts
    • Thickness Editor for editing Margins, Padding etc
• Sample Data Support -  see your item templates and bindings light up at design time
• Working with Silverlight 4 Out-of-Browser applications
  • Automatically launch and debug your OOB app from inside the IDE
  • Specify XAP signing for trusted OOB apps
  • Set the OOB window characteristics

Please Note: many of the new designer features work well with WPF as well as Silverlight projects, so this download is definitely recommended for Visual Studio 2010 WPF designer users too.

Check out this 20 minute Silverlight.tv video which shows most of the new Designer features in action.

Download and install the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
Follow the instructions at www.silverlight.net/getstarted  to install the final release version.

Don’t forget to uninstall any previous pre-release versions of the tools you might have.

We hope you enjoy this new release, and welcome your feedback via our MSDN forum.