Where to download Tools/SDK/Developer Runtime for Silverlight 4.0.50524.0

This one is for anyone who has had to deal with Company Standard Operating Environments (SOE’s), and the red tape involved with deploying updates to applications such as Silverlight.

We have been working on a Silverlight 4 application, and along the way our development environment had its Silverlight Tools and Runtime updated to a more recent version than what the SOE machines are currently running. When we went to test the deployment, of course nothing worked.

“Ok that’s cool” we said, “we’ll just install the previous versions of the Developer Runtime, SDK and Tools”.

After a few frantic minutes of searching through hard drives, and our development installation area (where it SHOULD have been), we discovered that we didn’t have a copy of what we needed.

“Ok that’s also cool” we naively said, “we’ll just download them from Microsoft”.

Have you ever tried to search for the download anything other than the current version of an application from download.microsoft.com? We discovered today what a nightmare it can really be!

A good while later, after of trawling through blog posts and comments about how to downgrade and where to download, we finally found the following three working links for what we need to compile for Silverlight 4.0.50524.0.

Thank you so much for this and the work you had to go through to find it. We have had the same problems with Silverlight versioning and this really helped. I can’t understand how Microsoft cannot make it easier to find a specific version of any of their products. Then again we should have the latest version

Unfortunately now a year later in Jan 2012, Silverlight 5 is out, and the latest Silverlight 4 is 4.0.60831.0 not 4.0.50524.0 so when I run this it says I’ve installed a newer version of Silverlight… any idea where the MS SL 4.0.60831.0 Dev Runtime??? That’s all I’m missing and sure not finding. Email me at danwygant on yahoo