Scott Guthrie: Inside Silverlight 3
- Posted: Mar 18, 2009 at 12:12 PM
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Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, leads the teams that create the .NET developer and designer technologies and tools.
Silverlight 3 has arrived in beta form.
Expression 3 also ships today in Preview form. Grab the bits and play. Provide feedback. OK. That's the housekeeping stuff. Now, on to this conversation with Scott. We talk about many things in this interview and weave the deeply technical view on Silverlight
3 with more surface level perspectives. So, if you're looking for bite size marketing messages, this video isn't for you 
What are the significant changes/improvements/inventions in Silverlight 3? Silverlight 2 brought the world a cross platfrom CLR. How has the CLR changed in Silverlight 3? Silverlight 3 enables Silverlight to run outside the context of a browser. What does this mean, exactly? Silverlight and Many-Core? What has the significant real world feedback been like regarding Silverlight 2 and how has it helped shape Silverlight 3? How do you work with the Moonlight folks, exactly (see Miguel's perspective on this as well)? And much, much more. This is a typically long Charles interview and we travel around The Gu's globe of knowledge (which is vast - he's an engineer at heart).
Thank you, Scott, for spending so much of your valuable time for a Channel 9 interview that should prove most interesting to many folks who watch and listen.
Enjoy!
What are the significant changes/improvements/inventions in Silverlight 3? Silverlight 2 brought the world a cross platfrom CLR. How has the CLR changed in Silverlight 3? Silverlight 3 enables Silverlight to run outside the context of a browser. What does this mean, exactly? Silverlight and Many-Core? What has the significant real world feedback been like regarding Silverlight 2 and how has it helped shape Silverlight 3? How do you work with the Moonlight folks, exactly (see Miguel's perspective on this as well)? And much, much more. This is a typically long Charles interview and we travel around The Gu's globe of knowledge (which is vast - he's an engineer at heart).
Thank you, Scott, for spending so much of your valuable time for a Channel 9 interview that should prove most interesting to many folks who watch and listen.
Enjoy!
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awsome, i thoght we'd have to wait until mix for stuff like this
cant wait to watch it, scott is always great, also cool to see charles in frame 
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(of course) you're right, i ve got sooo much stuff i want to watch, there wont be much sleepng tonight
thanks for settign me straigt charles
aac support in SL is great btw
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element to element binding! ive been missing that so much
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on demand framework download is also GREAT
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pixelshaders and out-of-browser support too? damns guys.. i though sl2 was cool but this takes it to a new level :O and im barely 10 minutes in to the video
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hey charels, what did you to on your arm ? looks like a cat scratched you or something
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lol @ playboy in sl3, esp, deepzoom
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Scott has that rare quality of always being engaging, there was a lot to discuss, and some things that will make using Prism less difficult, like binding to another control in the same XAML.
What I cannot believe, is that a subsequent version is smaller than the previous, especially with all the new features. I had always seen the archilles heel of Silverlight being 4MB->7MB->15MB between versions, but this is headline news.
The compression may have been improved, but knowing that Silverlight 2 needed to have as small a footprint as possible, must mean that very dark arts are being practiced by the team.
Nice!
not all keyboards on all systems use the same scan codes for some keys.
pc keyboards do but another OS has some very odd ways of doing stuff.
and recall that SL is meant to work on a number of systems...
Nah, just right.
It looks like the layout system still only supports render transformations and not layout transforms. Is this correct?
It's been the subject of much pain for me in the past. If it weren't for David Anson's implementation, I'd be sunk a hundred times over.
I burned myself while taking something out of the oven. Not sure what it was (which is probably related to why I burned myself -> drinking ethanol infused liquids and cooking....)
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However the WPF samples are great. Nice to see silverlight running in WPF.
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great video still
okay okay. I dont care about nasty fonts anymore. Expression Blend 3 is off the chain! I can actually mova and resize the toolbar and other panes! Code IN the designer ! but wait, there's more.
We've got SaveFileDialog, NavigationServices, etc.
I would REALLY like to see more compatibility with WPF (and more parity with Flex/Flash) in this area, and SL3 would be a great place to do it. Odds are that the rendering engine in SL has such an API, but just doesn't expose it...
Thoughts?
BTW. I just jad an idea, MS has SQL CE and it is just files, SL has a local storage for files. It would be really great if SL had a SQL CE driver built in and all SQL APIs exposed. That would be really killer feature for offline apps. No need for g***** gears.
Cheers!
I can't wait to try Silverlight 3 and with GPU support, it's going to be even more interesting.
Thanks for kicking *!
p.s.. I keep receiving the error, "toolbar could not be found" after I comment, I'm using Firefox btw.
I'll pass the toolbar issue to Duncan for a look-see.
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Anyway it will be a great update for SL, i hope as we develop in SL much and much more SL will be more and more exciting in the upcomming releases.
Great interview, very informative & to the point.
1. Would love to hear few case-studies, on new feature implemnentations
2. If we can get some demo on "Expression Blend" that was spoken about in this video, that would be a great selling point for us to our customers (end-to-end demo please)
3. Is there any focus on conducting a Training session on "How to use Expression Blend" in a real-life scenario. I see quite a few webcasts/demos, a free training session would be appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed the conversation! Watch this video for an Expression 3 intro and tour: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/First-Look-at-Expression-Blend-3/
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