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Asked: 2026-06-17T21:49:22+00:00

If I never had a .NET installed on my machine – would I be

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If I never had a .NET installed on my machine – would I be able to develop a Silverlight application using only Silverlight development tools?

In other words – do the Silverlight development tools depend on .NET?

If yes – where do I find information on what version of .NET each of Silverlight version depends on?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Silverlight CLR is standalone runtime, independent from .NET CLR. In other words, you can browse Silverlight application(run Sl bytecode on SL CLR) without .NET.
    Theoretically, you can develop Silverlight .XAP assembly without .NET, but all the same you need to develop hosting application for it(simple ASP.NET project) that requires .NET.

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