Included components

What's included with the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight?

The ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight consists of the following three components:

• Configurable Viewer—The ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight is a ready-to-deploy configurable Rich Internet Application (RIA) built on the ArcGIS API for Silverlight. As a Web client, it works with your ArcGIS Server services and data content from ArcGIS Online. Configuration of the Viewer with the Application Builder is easy and requires no editing of configuration files or programming experience.
• Application Builder—The Application Builder is a key component of the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight. It allows the quick and easy creation of Web mapping clients through an interactive, WYSIWYG user interface (UI). You can configure map content, tools (including GP services), and the overall look and feel of the Viewer. As you configure your Viewer, the interactive Viewer preview updates in real time, eliminating any guessing as to what your changes might look like. Once you are satisfied with your Viewer, click Deploy or Save to push it to a new website or update an existing one.
• Extensibility kits (for developers)—The ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight includes an extensibility kit designed to support developers who want to extend the core Viewer framework using add-ins. An “add-in” is a modular chunk of code that can be shared. Add-ins include tools, behaviors, layer types, and layouts. Within an add-in, you may leverage any Silverlight library, including the ArcGIS API for Silverlight and the native Silverlight API.