Timmy Kokke

Silverlight 3 downloads

Below is a list of downloads for Silverlight 3. It includes all necessary downloads together. The majority are new updates and releases since the Silverlight 3 release. A few are older releases but should work with Silverlight 3.  I’ll try to keep the list up to date when new releases follow. If you know a tool, library or framework for Silverlight that isn’t on the list, please let now by commenting, mailing or thru twitter.

Development/Design

• Silverlight 3 RTW (3.0.40818.0)
• Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• Microsoft Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC
• Silverlight Toolkit
• Silverlight Tools for Eclipse

Libraries

• Microsoft .NET RIA Services July 2009 Preview (Data)
• Managed Extensibility Framework, Preview 6 (Extensibility)
• MVVM Light Toolkit (UI Patterns)
• Silverlight Unit Test Framework (Unit Test)
• CThru and SilverUnit(Unit Test/Mocking)
• Rhino Mocks (Mocking)
• Moq(Mocking)
• Unity for Silverlight (DI/IoC)
• Ninject (DI/IoC)
• Autofac(IoC)
• nRoute Framework (Application Flow)
• Prism (Guidance)
• Caliburn (UI Patterns)
• Silverlight extensions (Controls)
• Silverlight Contrib (Controls)
• Vectorlight's Liquid Controls  (Controls)
• Blacklight (Controls)
• Clog (Logging)
• Farseer Physics Engine
• DeepEarth (Mapping)
• .NET Image Tools (Image manipulation)
• Kit3D (Graphics)
• PhysicsHelper(Physics)

Tools

• Deep Zoom Composer
• Enable TFS 2008 to work with Expression Studio 3
• Silverlight Spy
• Shazzam
• XPerf
• Glimpse

Other

• Silverlight 3 Offline documentation
• Themes, Add-ins, Behaviors and Tools
• Expression Blend Samples of behaviors and effects
• Expression Blend 3 SDK

Dynamic languages

• IronRuby
• IronPython

(latest update October 28th 2009)

In case you just want to get started with Silverlight 3 and you do not have anything yet, or if you just want an easy tool, you can download the Web Platform Installer. This tool will provide you with everything you need for developing web applications, including Visual Studio Express.

In case you want to know more, read more, or want to watch more go to http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/. If you have any questions about programming Silverlight, feel free to ask.

If you found a download for silverlight 3, a tool or framework or whatever, that isn’t listed here, please mail or tweet me @sorskoot

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