System requirements

The following sections highlight the minimum application and/or system requirements necessary to build and deploy Silverlight applications.

Silverlight application development

Silverlight 5 with Visual Studio 2012

• Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web
• Blend + SketchFlow Preview for Visual Studio 2012

Silverlight 5 with Visual Studio 2010

• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 SP1
• Silverlight 5 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
• Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

Silverlight 5 with Blend

• Blend + SketchFlow Preview for Visual Studio 2012 or Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5

Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2012

• Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web
• Silverlight 4 SDK
• Expression Blend SDK for Silverlight 4 (also included with Expression Blend 4)

Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010

• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 SP1
• Expression Blend SDK for Silverlight 4 (also included with Expression Blend 4)

Silverlight 4 with Blend

• Expression Blend 4

Silverlight application browser support

• Silverlight platform (plug-in) system requirements
  • Silverlight runtime versions 4.x and 5.x are supported

Supported languages

Arabic (ar)

Danish (da)

Dutch (nl)

English (en)

French (fr)

German (de)

Hebrew (he)

Italian (it)

Japanese (ja)

Korean (ko)

Lithuanian (lt)

Norwegian (no)

Polish (pl)

Portuguese - Brazilian (pt-BR)

Portuguese - Portugal (pt-PT)

Romanian (ro)

Russian (ru)

Simplified Chinese (zh-CN, zh-Hans)

Spanish (es)

Swedish (sv)