Does Silverlight 4 require .NET 4?

Question

Do Silverlight 4 applications require that they target .NET 4.

With the delay in .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010; can I still get the advantages of Silverlight 4 running against the .NET 3.5 framework?

Answer 1

Silverlight does not require any version of .NET (or, put another way, it includes its own sorta-kinda version of .NET; at any rate, it doesn't need any version of the full .NET runtime). It is a completely independent runtime.