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Rundown of Silverlight 4 Beta

Posted By: John Papa | Nov 18th, 2009 @ 10:15 AM | 12,469 Views | 5 Comments
Silverlight 4 Beta released at PDC09 is jam-packed with new features. John Papa, our new Silverlight Evangelist, and Adam Kinney talk about what's new and walkthrough some of the highly-anticipated new features including: Printing, WebCam and Microphone support, custom right-click, rich text and access to local files with trusted applications.
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#Nov 18th, 2009 @ 11:12 AM
ramooon
ramooon
LongCat

Is this the final features set ?

There's still no GPU support for shaders or 3D ?

Do you know when this will be available ?

I don't get the whole OOB strategy... don't you think you kind of re-create WPF ?

Great stuff BTW !

 

#Nov 18th, 2009 @ 12:17 PM
Flynn0r
Flynn0r
Passionate about code

I think the difference is that you can use a Silverlight OOB application on other systems, the Macintosh. That´s not possible with WPF. It´s a fantastic feature if you ask me.

#Nov 18th, 2009 @ 12:56 PM
ramooon
ramooon
LongCat

@Flynn0r: I agree it's a fantastic feature... so why not port WPF on others systems instead ? I mean one of the goal of the CLR was cross platform development, right ? When Silverlight will get every feature WPF has, then WPF will be useless :/

#Nov 24th, 2009 @ 11:48 AM
jopapa
jopapa
Silverlight Shaker

WPF still has its place and it paved the way for XAML. Silverlight 4 beta OoB features allow developers to create powerful apps on a Mac or a PC. The gap between Silverlight and WPF is getting smaller, but that's pretty much expected since WPF had a head start.

#Dec 1st, 2009 @ 2:43 AM
Eli7
Eli7

We have a midium size WPF app (>100,000 lines of code) with a lot of xaml interactivity. Right from the beginning we intend to port it to Silverlight when Silverlight matures. Are we approaching a situation when you can just open a WPF app in Silverlight and it will run? If so, when is that likely to be? Silverlight 5?

 

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Eli Cohen

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