Software needed to work with Silverlight application

•Set up an IDE
•An Editor to create an XAML and managed code
•Moreover, SDK
A designer needs to install some designer tools and a development environment which work with XAML.
How to Set Development Environment

•To go with the following I advice you to go first with following link :
http://www.silverlight.net/GetStarted
Following are the steps direct how to Set up the Environment
•Install Visual Studio 2008 with Visual Web Developer Feature
•Install Silverlight Plug-in: download Silverlight Plug-in from http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight and Install Silverlight2, make sure you have uninstalled all previous versions of silverlight

How to Install Silverlight SDK

•Goto : http://www.silverlight.net/GetStarted

•Installation of Silverlight SDK depends upon your environment like if you have Visual Studio 2008 installed or not on your computer.