Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010The Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is an add-on for Visual Studio 2010 that provides tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 4 and WCF RIA Services. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. It extends the existing Silverlight 3 features and multi-targeting capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 to also support creating, designing, building and debugging Silverlight 4 applications. The tooling supports:
These tools include full intellisense for markup extensions including data bindings and resource bindings. WCF RIA Services SupportThe tooling also includes design time support for WCF RIA Services with the following highlighted features:
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Visual Studio 2010 Tooling Support for Silverlight 4 Automatic LayoutVisual Studio 2010 supports designing “size to content” driven layouts in the designer surface. This is helpful for design containers that don’t naturally want to have a fixed root size (User Controls, Pages etc).
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Defining the Layout The Grid Designer lets you easily switch between fixed and auto layout rows and columns.
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Automatic Sizing of Rows and Columns Enhanced Property EditingNew property editing features are included in Visual Studio 2010 such as brush/color, font, and image property editors.
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Choosing a Color
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Choosing an Image File Styling and ResourcesFinding and applying styles and resources through Visual Studio 2010 is supported in the property browser window, including a preview of the style.
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Finding and Applying a Style You can also extract a Resource from an existing value. Just right click and choose Extract Value to Resource, then name the style and choose the Resource dictionary.
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