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

• 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 4

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

English (en)

Arabic (ar)

German (de)

Spanish (es)

French (fr)

Italian (it)

Japanese (ja)

Korean (ko)

Dutch (nl)

Norwegian (no)

Polish (pl)

Portuguese - Brazilian (pt-BR)

Romanian (ro)

Russian (ru)

Swedish (sv)

Simplified Chinese (zh-CN, zh-Hans)