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Get Started with Silverlight
Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, Desktop and mobile applications when online or offline
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Here's how you can get started with Silverlight right now
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Step One
Install the Tools
If you don't have a preferred development tool installed already, install Visual Studio 2010 and then the Silverlight 5 Tools for Visual Studio .
See the downloads page for other useful tools, toolkits, and SDKs related to Silverlight 5.
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Step Two
Silverlight Quick Tour
Pete Brown introduces the concepts and tools needed to get started with Silverlight development in its two major forms: in-browser and out-of-browser. The web video introduces basic concepts, the out-of-browser video expands those to create a simple Twitter client. The Release Overview video expands upon those two to provide information about what's new in Silverlight 5.
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Step Three
Learn how to use Silverlight
Follow one or more of the learning paths that are on the Learn tab.There are hundreds of samples, videos and tutorials that will help you to get started quickly.
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Step Four
Get Support
Find answers to many common questions in the Silverlight Forums with over 300,000 threads, 96,316 members from around the world. In the past day, we had 80 new threads, 424 new posts, and 50 new users.
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Step Five
Get Inspired or Show off what you’ve built
The Silverlight Showcase makes it easy for you to get inspired by the solutions that other people are building or to inspire others with your creations.