…just a word of caution for developers: if you are still developing with Silverlight 3 and VS2008 don’t install the Silverlight 4 runtime. If you do, you won’t be able to build your SL3 application anymore and you’ll spend the next hour
a) looking for a way to make your app build again
b) looking for the SL3 runtime (that you won’t find anywhere –and won’t correct the situation anyway).
This problem should not arise if you are already on VS2010 because it allows you to choose your target between SL3 and SL4, but if you are stuck with VS2008 you are out of luck.
It seems that the folks at MS think that everybody can just go ahead and migrate all their solutions to VS2010 and SL4 the next day things are released.
Epic fail! Rant over.
P.S. the correct way to make things work again is:
– uninstall the Silverlight 4 runtime (listed as “Silverlight” in the Programs & Features panel)
– restart your machine (no, you cannot skip this step!!!)
– download the Silverlight3 Developer Runtime and install it (hurry up because as soon as they’ll notice they will remove it from the download server!)
And no, you won’t be able to view SL4 websites –but at least your app will build.
UPDATE: forget the rubbish above. If you install the Silverlight 4 developer runtime you will be able to run SL4 apps and build SL3 apps (of course if you had the SL3 SDK). Just don’t install the “normal” SL4 runtime.