Getting Started with Silverlight
Microsoft is evolving Silverlight at a fast pace. At the time of writing, the current, released version is Silverlight 3.0. However, there is also a beta of Silverlight 4.0. While we briefly discuss what is planned for the 4.0 release (see the end of this section), the content created by in the examples is all Silverlight 3.0 as that is the version shipping with Visual Studio 2010.
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The best place to check for the latest design and development tools is http://www.silverlight.net. This site gives you links to download the latest runtime, design tools, and development templates and SDKs.
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