Today’s Silverlight 4 Tooling Release for VS 2010 includes a
bunch of nice new features. These include:
Support for Silverlight Out of Browser Applications and
Elevated Trust Applications
You can open up a Silverlight application’s project
properties window and click the “Enable Running Application Out of Browser”
checkbox to enable you to install an offline, out of browser, version of your
Silverlight 4 application. You can then customize a number of “out of
browser” settings of your application within Visual Studio:
Notice above how you can now indicate that you want to run
with elevated trust, with hardware graphics acceleration, as well as customize
things like the Window style of the application (allowing you to build a nice
polished window style for consumer applications).