So, I’ve just been attending MIX09 keynote (ScottGu, etc.), and… as you’ll discover, Silverlight 3.0 rocks!!! 🙂

Here you have some of what we’re disclosing today about SL3.0:

• SILVERLIGHT 3.0
• MEDIA & GRAPHICS
  • GPU hardware acceleration!!
  • Opt-in feature per element
  • Codecs (H.264/AAC/MP4, VC1, etc.)
  • Perspective 3D
  • Bitmap & pixel API
  • Pixel Shader effects!!
  • Deep Zoom improvements
• App. Development
  • Deep linking, navigation and SEA
  • Improved text quality
  • Multi-touch support
  • 100+ controls available
  • Library caching support (reference to libs & cached so no need to download it again)
• DEMO: ROLLING STONE COVER TO COVER
• DATA
  • Data-binding improvements
  • Validation error templates
  • Server data push improvements
  • Binary XML networking support
  • Multi-Tier REST data support
• Entity Framework context in SL client side
• SAP NetWeaver Support bsed on Silverlight
• ‘OUT OF BROWSER CAPABILITIES’ – WINDOW & OFF-LINE mode
• No browser needed!…
• Also for MAC!
• Safe, secure, sandboxed environment
• Built-in auto-update support
• Build offline-aware applications
• Integrated with underlying operating system
• DEMO: KEXP 90.3 FM – SEATTLE KEXP.ORG
• www.kep.org
• —–
• LOCAL MESSAGING

– Cross plug-in Silverlight communication
    ○ Multiple plugins on the same page
    ○ Multiple plugins on different brwoser tabs
    ○ Multiple plugins on different browsers
    ○ DEMO: Balls going from one browser to the other. 🙂
    ○ DEMO: CHESS battle, JavaScript vs. C# BENCHMARK, but in different BROWSERS!! 🙂

• Download experience! : 40k smaller than Silverlight 2!!!
• Available today:
  • Silverlight 3 Beta
  • Expression Blend 3 Preview
  • Silvelright 3 Tools for VS.2008
  • IIS Media Services (Smooth Streaming, etc.)
• IIS MEDIA SERVICES (Launched today, as well)
  • Smooth streaming (Silverlight <—> IIS 7.0 & Smooth Streaming)
  • Edge caching
  • Web playlist
  • Bit-rate throttling
  • Advanced logging
  • AKAMAI integration
  • DEMO: NBC OLIMPICS — VANCOUVER 2010 CANADA will use it! 🙂
    • HD 720 – All content

Also, about the new EXPRESSION BLEND, some new features:

• EXPRESSION BLEND 3
  • Sketch-Flow
  • BLEND PLAYER FOR MAC!! 🙂
    • For customers/designers so they can review and approve designs in a MAC
    • Feedback Window for every screen, etc.
    • Notes, save it and send it to the designer!.
  • Export to Microsoft Word – Design Document with all the notes, etc.
  • Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator import
    • Directly open .PSD files from BLEND.
    • Yo can modify all Photoshop layers changing images to XAMEL elements and dynamics data & Data binding. 🙂
  • Behaviors
  • Designing with data
  • Source code control —> TEAM FOUNDATION integration.
  • XAML, C# and VB code intellisense in Expression Blend 3.0.