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Get Started

Microsoft Silverlight will reach end of support after October 2021. Learn more.

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Install the Tools

If you don't have a preferred development tool installed already, install Visual Studio 2012 with Silverlight tools.

See the Silverlight downloads page for other useful tools, toolkits and SDKs related to Silverlight 5.

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Silverlight 5 Release Overview

In this video, Pete Brown provides an overview of the new and updated features in the release of Silverlight 5. Here's the related Silverlight 5 launch blog post on Pete's blog.

Silverlight 5 Release Overview

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Learn how to use Silverlight

Our learn page has many samples, videos and tutorials that will help you to get started quickly.

Silverlight Videos and Tutorials

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Get Support

Find answers to many common questions in the Silverlight Forums with over 300,000 threads, 96,316 members from around the world.

Find Answers in the Silverlight Forums

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Get Inspired

Companies use Silverlight to build interactive applications and deliver flawless streaming media to audiences on all types of media.

See the case studies

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