Silverlight 3 | The Coffeehouse

eagle

Erisan

I'm sooo excited. Does it work on my Linux and OpenBSD machines yet? What about my Amiga box?

Ok ok, I know it's naive to even talk about "Internet for everyone". I'm just a bit p*ssed that users can't choose their software and use Internet with 100% of it's capabilities. Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX, ... *phew*

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

I ran into a problem with the download, Eagle, and many developers may, but there's an easy enough path to alleviate it.

Your Silverlight developer components are out of date.

If you have a dev. env. on your box and don't already have the Silverlight 3 tools installed, you will want to hit the link below first before installing Silverlight 3...

http://go2.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=119972

then

Download Now

EDIT: AACCKK! the link I put up above, which the Silverlight 3 install yields upon the error, is for Silverlight 2 dev. tools which I already have installed! Time to hunt them down...

Who should be notified of this obvious oversight?

This is the offending page: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/help.aspx?errorID=1512

I just filed an incident report with support.microsoft.com Sad

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to JohnAskew

#Jul 9th @ 11:05 AM

Oh it gets worse. You can't easily switch between SL2 and SL3 SDKs. In fact someone wrote a batch file which forces an uninstall and install to do so.

eagle

In reply to JohnAskew

#Jul 9th @ 11:05 AM

The path of the early adapter is always interesting : )

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

In reply to blowdart

#Jul 9th @ 12:03 PM

The horror!

CKurt
while( ( !succeed=try() ) ) { }

Did not see this comming! RTW allready!

eagle

In reply to JohnAskew

#Jul 9th @ 12:09 PM

Sometime in the early hours of the morning I'm sure Scott Guthrie will blog about all the joys and pittfalls of Silverlight 3

mawcc
Make it so

Font rendering has improved a lot. It also seems to perform better. I like it so far.

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

In reply to eagle

#Jul 9th @ 12:06 PM

Early- adapter vs. adopter is appropo, given the need to adapt to such a boondoggle install. Perplexed

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

In reply to JohnAskew

#Jul 9th @ 11:05 AM

Is there a SL 3 SDK link yet? tia

kettch

In reply to staceyw

#Jul 10th @ 12:35 AM

I've been refreshing the Get Started page on silverlight.net all day. I just noticed that they put up links to everything that is currently available.

http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

CreamFilling512

Did anyone try the smooth streaming demo? http://www.iis.net/media/experiencesmoothstreaming

It's very nice, if only Silverlight was more prevalent.

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

In reply to kettch

#Jul 10th @ 12:51 AM

Smiley I caught that just now also between f5 refreshes. Very cool. Hope I can get me beta web site running with new stuff or at least continue to develop. Looking forward to trying sketchflow

Harlequin
http://twitter.com/TrueHarlequin

In reply to blowdart

#Jul 9th @ 12:03 PM

That does suck you can't work on both side-by-side, but Silverlight 3 is supposed to be Silverlight 2 compatable, so maybe the best thing is to branch off your work, build it in Silverlight 3, and just go from there.

spivonious

Geez, Silverlight 2 is just starting to appear in more places and it's already obsolete.

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

In reply to spivonious

#Jul 10th @ 11:25 AM

Look at it as the result of Continuous Integration -- more deliverables more frequently.

Backwards compatibility is something these guys do best (in relative terms, imho).

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

I note that the Silverlight installer uses 7z to compress the 15MB *.msp file down to 4MB. This may be a breach of various software patents for Arithmetic Encoding, which the LZMA algorithm uses, and as we know, LZMA is 7z' preferred (though, not only) algorithm for file compression.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to CreamFilling512

#Jul 10th @ 1:37 AM

That smooth streaming thing is interesting indeed. I'm wondering, what with Silverlight coming to the 360 and the instant-on 1080p service they have coming out in various countries this year... is that video service going to run on Silverlight? I've heard quite a few people wonder how they're possibly going to stream HD video smoothly, with fast forwarding and rewinding and everything, but looking at that smooth streaming video it doesn't seem so far-fetched. The searches there are almost instantaneous.

eagle

In reply to JohnAskew

#Jul 10th @ 11:43 AM

The Gu makes it official

rodgerdb

In reply to CreamFilling512

#Jul 10th @ 1:37 AM

http://www.iis.net/media/experiencesmoothstreaming works great, just tried this on the MacBook. Very smooth indeed. I also noted it doesn't eat up CPU at full screen. I am playing it back on a 24" Cinema Display. Usually Hulu will jack the fans up and CPU usage goes up. Come to think of it, so does Netflix as well.

This one played back smoothly with no extreme CPU overhead.