Training & Tools

Guidance, downloads and learning resources to get you up to speed on the latest Silverlight capabilities and help you build and deploy rich Internet applications for the enterprise.

Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide
This guide helps you to plan and carry out a corporate deployment of Silverlight. It describes the system requirements and deployment methods, as well as the techniques to maintain and support Silverlight after deployment.

Video: Build your first Silverlight web application
In this video, Pete Brown walks through creating your first Silverlight web application.

Security Guidance for Writing and Deploying Silverlight Applications
This comprehensive introduction covers some Web security basics like the same-origin policy, cross-site scripting attacks, and cross-site request forgery.

What's New in Silverlight 4
Discover the new business-centric features for rich media experiences, Expression Blend and Visual Studio tooling enhancements, and new Out-of-Browser features.

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2010 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 4 and RIA Services.

Silverlight 4 Training
The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper explaining all of the new Silverlight 4 features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and an 8-unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4.

New Downloads

Silverlight 4 SDK
The Microsoft Silverlight 4 SDK contains online documentation, online samples, libraries and tools for developing Silverlight 4 applications.

Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1
LightSwitch offers a simple, fast way to build applications for the desktop, web, and the cloud.