Silverlight Diff Lists

Silverlight runtime updates are released frequently and it's easy to get lost in the shear amount of new features that appear in the various updates. The following lists provides a convenient way to view the changes in the API's of the various Silverlight releases for both desktop and the Windows Phone.

Learn more about the various Silverlight releases from the official Microsoft Silverlight Release History.

Silverlight 3

Compare the latest Silverlight 3 release with the Silverlight 4 release

Silverlight 3 GDR 3 vs Silverlight 4 GDR 4

 

Silverlight 4

Usually GDR (General Distribution Release) updates only contain fixes and no changes in the API. A number of GDR releases do introduce new features as listed below.

Silverlight 4 RTW vs Silverlight 4 GDR 1

Silverlight 4 GDR 3 vs Silverlight 4 GDR 4

Silverlight 4 GDR 4 vs Silverlight 4 GDR 5

 

Silverlight 5

Find out what's new in Silverlight 5.

Silverlight 4 GDR 5 vs Silverlight 5 RTW

Silverlight 5 RC vs Silverlight 5 RTW

 

Silverlight vs Windows Phone

Compare the differences between the Silverlight desktop version 3 & 4 and the Windows Phone.

Silverlight 3 GDR 3 vs Windows Phone January 2011 Update

Silverlight 4 GDR 4 vs Windows Phone January 2011 Update