Silverlight 3.0

Silverlight 3.0
Subodh N Pushpak

Agenda
Introduction
Silverlight Roadmap
Exploring new features of Silverlight 3.0
Exploring RIA services
Demos
Q & A

Introduction
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIA) for the Web. Silverlight unifies the capabilities of the server, the Web, and the desktop, of managed code and dynamic languages, of declarative and traditional programming, and the power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Introduction
Silverlight enables following features:
It is a cross-browser, cross-platform technology. It runs in all popular Web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Flock, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Opera, and on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X.
It provides a consistent experience no matter where it runs.
It is supported by a very small download that installs in seconds.

.Net Ecosystem

Silverlight Roadmap
Silverlight 1.0 – JavaScript support
Silverlight 2.0 – managed code support with controls
Silverlight 3.0
Current version: unveiled at MIX09 in Las Vegas on March 18, 2009. A beta version is available for download.
Full Release on July 10 2009

Silverlight 3.0 new features
Developing LOB applications with Silverlight RIA.
Controls
Search Discoverability
.NET RIA Services Framework
Improved Performance
Advanced Accessibility

Search Engine Discoverability
Silverlight Solves the SEO-related challenges posed by RIAs by utilizing business objects on the server, together with ASP.NET controls and site maps, and automatically mirror database-driven RIA content into HTML that is easily indexed by the leading search engines.
Demo

Outof Browser
Out of browser Experience / Demo
Run Apps Out of Browser
Desktop & Start Menu
Safer & More Secure
Smooth Installation& Auto Update
Windows Integration
Connectivity Detection

Graphics
Perspective3DGraphics
Bitmap Caching
New Bitmap API
Themed App Support
Enhanced Control Skinning
Improved Text Rendering

Media
Smooth Streaming
More Format Choices
Full Screen HD Playback
Extensible Media Formats
Industry LeadingContent Protection

Expression Blend 3
Prototyping w/ SketchFlow
Visual Design Workflow
Accessible Interactivity
Design w/ Data
VSTF Integration
Design Surface Extensibility

More Features
Application library caching
Deep Zoom improved.
Binary XML communication with the server is compressed, improving performance.
Local connections allow communication between two Silverlight applications, on the client side. LocalConnection API to communicate (using a named pipe style model)

Links
Silverlight Beta 3 runtime http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx
Silverlight Beta 3 for Visual Studio Tools http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=143571
Silverlight Beta 3 Toolkit
http://codeplex.com/Silverlight

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Subodh N Pushpak
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Questions & Answers