Scott Guthrie: Inside Silverlight 2 Beta 1

Posted By: Charles | Mar 5th, 2008 @ 11:18 AM | 18,422 Views | 22 Comments
Scott Guthrie sits down with me to dig into and show off some of the features of Silverlight 2 Beta 1. Among other very useful features, there is now design surface support for Silverlight UI in both VS 2008 and Expression Blend! Scott builds a Silverlight app in VS and Expression Blend with a Silverlight button control named Charles Smiley

Of course, it's not a Channel 9 interview without discussing why we are doing all of this!

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#Mar 5th, 2008 @ 11:18 AM
LiquidSpy
LiquidSpy
figuerres wrote:

ZippyV wrote: Haven't seen the vid yet but have they talked about microphone/webcam support?


?? WTF ?? 

Uh how the heck could you do that and still be "cross platform" and "in a sandbox" ??

just as SL is not hardware accell for Video, to access a camera or a mic you need some driver / OS support that will be very different for each combo of OS / hardware ....

and for what benefit?

I would say that an app that needs that support should be a sperate app.


also there are some security issues... if SL could use that hardware how would I know that some evil person had not sliped a "spy app" into my system ??

and if the SL CLR had the guts to do the hardware IO then how could anyone say for sure it would be 100% imposible to exploit it to do other system calls ?

sorry but I just see a lot of problems with doing that and keeping with the idea of SL as cross-platform and safe to deploy.



I agree with ZippyV. If Flash can do it, why not SL?? hmmm... I think we'll see it, just not till 3.0. Just guessing.
#Mar 5th, 2008 @ 11:29 AM
figuerres
figuerres
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Wooo.... must watch this.... hoping the beta bits are now ready or will be soon!

YES the betas are out there .... Big Smile Big Smile Big Smile Big Smile
#Mar 5th, 2008 @ 12:53 PM
aL_
aL_
Rx ftw

omg omg omg :O *overstimulated*

cant.. watch.. soon.. enough...

#Mar 5th, 2008 @ 4:22 PM
PerfectPhase
PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

Too...  much.... cool... stuff... not... enough... time...

I know excally what my first project for this will be Smiley

#Mar 5th, 2008 @ 6:21 PM
ZippyV
ZippyV
Fired Up
Haven't seen the vid yet but have they talked about microphone/webcam support?
#Mar 5th, 2008 @ 6:40 PM
CRPietschmann
CRPietschmann
Chris Pietschmann
Hmm... For some reason I feel like drinking a Pepsi...
#Mar 5th, 2008 @ 7:37 PM
irascian
irascian
Irascible Ian
Really, really good video Charles. You should act as "the talent" more often - you have a natural ease about you that makes the interview really work.

It's great to see the production quality of Channel 9 videos over the last few weeks dramatically improve. Non-intrusive transitions and use of a decent screen capture program instead of silly "point camera from weird angle at screen" is a huge improvement.

Good stuff and well worth the time invested in watching it.
#Mar 5th, 2008 @ 9:44 PM
JChung2006
JChung2006
CRPietschmann wrote:
Hmm... For some reason I feel like drinking a Pepsi...

Yeah, I wonder how much Pepsico paid for that product placement. Apple, on the other hand, got no love, hiding behind Scott's Macbook Pro's C9 decal. Wink

Great video! I'm excited to learn more about Silverlight 2, particularly the DLR, Python, and Ruby.

#Mar 6th, 2008 @ 4:42 AM
Minh
Minh
WOOH! WOOH!
Scott doesn't like the tile "Vice President" doesn't he?

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