14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has released what it calls a service update for the latest iteration of Silverlight. According to the Redmond company, the upgrade is designed to kick up a notch the previous release of Silverlight 4 which was Build 4.0.50401.0 RTW. In this regard, Build 4.0.50524.0 is the first update to Silverlight 4 since the technology was released to web in the first half of April 2010. Tim Heuer, Microsoft program manager for Silverlight noted that there were no major additions to Silverlight 4 in Build 4.0.50524.0.
“This is a minor release that addresses some items found immediately after release that have now completed our test passes with those who reported them. Most of the items found won’t affect all users, but media developers will want to get this update for their applications and encourage their users to upgrade,” Heuer stated.
Heuer explained that the update Build 4.0.50524.0 was designed to resolve a range of media-related issues that have been identified and reported to Microsoft by some of the company’s media customers. The software giant accompanied the first Silverlight 4 refresh with a knowledge base article detailing the specific problems that Build 4.0.50524.0 is set up to fix.
“A few items were serviced for DRM users as well as 2nd monitor usage for media on the Mac platform. If you are developing media solutions (or are a media application user), you’ll want to upgrade to this release and encourage your users to as well,” Heuer noted.
He went on to underline that the minor update would require very little of developers leveraging Silverlight. Specifically, all that devs will need to do is update the developer runtime. “There is no tooling or SDK update for this release. You can download the updated developer runtime here: Windows developer runtime or Mac developer runtime. Once installed, your new Silverlight 4 applications will target this platform version. No other changes to your tools are required. On existing applications if you want your users to ensure they have this latest version, please ensure you update your < object > tag to increment the minRuntimeVersion attribute to the appropriate version (4.0.50524.0),” Heuer added.
Silverlight 4 Build 4.0.50524.0 RTW is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Premium is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Professional is available for download here.
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate is available for download here.
Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 is available for download here.
.NET Framework 4 RTM is available for download here.