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Silverlight Designer

You can create Silverlight applications in the WPF Designer for Visual Studio as easily as you can create WPF applications. The familiar features of Design view, XAML view, and the Properties window are the same. For more information, see WPF and Silverlight Designer Overview and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010

Creating a Silverlight Project

To create a Silverlight project with Visual Studio, you must first install the Silverlight Software Development Kit (SDK) and follow the procedure described in How to: Create a New Silverlight Project.

Data Binding

You can bind Silverlight custom controls to data by using the data binding builder. For more information, see Data Binding in the WPF Designer and Binding Silverlight Controls to Data in Visual Studio.

Extensibility

If you author custom design-time experiences for your Silverlight controls, you use the same extensibility API that you use with WPF custom controls. For more information, see WPF Designer Extensibility and WPF and Silverlight Designer Extensibility Samples.

See Also

Other Resources

Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010

How to: Create a New Silverlight Project

Walkthrough: Creating Your First Silverlight Application

Silverlight Software Development Kit (SDK)

WPF and Silverlight Designer Extensibility Samples