Silverlight 3 downloads

July 9, 2009 · 2 min read

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

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

(latest update October 28th 2009)

Sketchflow screenshot

Image: SketchFlow

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

TKokke

Shout it

kick it on DotNetKicks.com

This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Timmy Kokke

New on Geeks with Blogs

  • We Won The One Award I Actually Care About

    Full Scale made the Inc. 5000 for the fifth year straight, the 12th listing across my three companies. Here is why the one award you cannot buy is worth stopping for.

  • Your Customers Build the Features Now

    I let a tool I liked sit dead for a year rather than build the features I wanted. An MCP server meant I never had to, and your customers can do the same to your product.

  • Get the Size of a Directory in Linux the Easy Way

    du -sh for the quick answer, ncdu for the cleanup, df for the disk itself: every command for checking directory size in Linux, plus why du and df never agree.

  • Vim Search and Replace: The Ultimate Guide

    One :%s command replaces every match in a file before a find dialog would even open. The Vim substitute patterns worth the muscle memory: flags, ranges, capture groups, and multi-file edits.