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ESL/Installing
ESL brings 2 experiences for the Eclipse Developer: it’s either you work in an Eclipse universe or you need to go back and forth between Eclipse and Microsoft Silverlight Tools (Visual Studio for development and Expression Blend for Design). We’ll call those configurations Pure Eclipse and Mixed Eclipse respectively.
Contents
1. Pure Eclipse configuration
If you want eclipse4SL to work Visual Studio and/or Expression Blend, you can follow the Pure Eclipse Configuration Steps, then take the Mixed Eclipse steps.
1.1 Pre-requisites
Check the following products are installed on your machine, or proceed to their installation in the following order :
- Windows XP SP2 (or above) or Windows Vista SP1
Other OS are planned for future versions
- JDK 1.5.0_11 (or above)
- Eclipse Galileo : any of the following Eclipse standard distribution
- Eclipse Basic 3.4.1
- Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
- Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (Recommended)
- .Net Framework 3.5 (or above)
- Use the Bootstrapper Installer
- Or download the full redistributable package dotnetfx35.exe and run it
- Silverlight 4 Runtime (2.0.31005.0 or above)
Go to this page http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/, at the right side, click on the "Window runtime". The current build of ESL doesn't support other platforms yet.
- Silverlight 4 SDK
1.2 ESL installation
You’ve got 2 options to install the Eclipse Tools for Silverlight : Eclipse Update or Offline installation.
The Eclipse Update wizard consists in an online installation. You can use this solution if your machine is correctly connected to the Internet. The installation is pretty straightforward and it doesn't require deep knowledges of the Eclipse environment. The Eclipse update wizard finds and installs all the required plugins.
The offline installation is used when your machine is not connected to the Internet or in case there is a firewall that prevents to access the Eclipse update infrastructure. You will be asked to download all required plugins beforehand.
1.2.1. Eclipse Update Wizard
Below are the step by step instructions for configuring Eclipse IDE with the ESL plugin package.
To install ESL, open Eclipse, select Help->Software Updates....