System requirements

The following section highlights the minimum application and/or system requirements necessary to build and deploy WPF applications.

WPF application development

Both 32-bit and 64-bit application solutions built on the .NET 3.5 and 4.0 Framework are supported. The following integrated development environments (IDEs) are supported:

• Visual Studio:
  • Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010
  • Expression Blend 4 SDK for .NET (also included with Expression Blend 4)
    • Necessary for behavior support

• Expression Blend:
  • Expression Blend 4
    • Included with Expression Studio editions