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 is no longer available, use Blend included with Visual Studio 2012 SP2+ or Visual Studio 2013

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 is no longer available, use Blend included with Visual Studio 2012 SP2+ or Visual Studio 2013

Silverlight 5 with Blend

• Blend + SketchFlow Preview for Visual Studio 2012 and Expression Blend Preview for Silverlight 5 are no longer available, use Blend included with Visual Studio 2012 SP2+ or Visual Studio 2013

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

Silverlight 4 with Visual Studio 2010

• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 SP1
• Expression Blend SDK for Silverlight 4

Silverlight 4 with Blend

• Expression Blend 4 is no longer available, use Blend included with Visual Studio 2012 SP2+ or Visual Studio 2013

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)