Silverlight 3.0 news disclosed today at MIX09 in Las Vegas!!!

Cesar De la Torre

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
    • 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.

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