Silverlight 3 Beta!

Published on March 24, 2009 in work. 9 Comments Tags: , .

Here are all the Silverlight 3 Beta links, if you’re interested in digging in.

As a callout:  This is a developer beta release only! This means there is no “go-live” licensing available and the end-user runtime of Silverlight 3 is not available.

A full list of the new features can be found here.

If you’re curious, some of the new framework features inside of the core runtime are:

  • BasedOn Styles
  • Merged ResourceDictionaries
  • Ability to listen to handled routed events
  • Data Binding to DependencyProperty sources
  • Binding supports RelativeSource syntax
  • Explicit update for Bindings
  • Validation UI supported by VSM
  • MultiSelection for ListBox

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  • Bobby
    March 24, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    The features link don’t work

  • Karen
    March 24, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Thanks for the ping – updated!

  • shaggygi
    March 24, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    What do you mean about features…

    Ability to listen to handled routed events
    Validation UI supported by VSM

    Do you have examples/links? Thanks.

  • Tranzformerz
    March 27, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Hi Karen, I enjoyed your session at MIX. Good job! I hope to see at MIX next year. I’ve been playing around with the Silverlight 3 Beta and wanted to ask you if “Resources” were just a xaml file and not use a code behind .cs. I did not see this option using the “Add New Item” option, so I’m thinking this should be generated generically yes? Anyway, keep up the good work.

  • Tranzformerz
    March 27, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Clarification on my previous post. I’m referring to “Resource Dictionary” xaml. Thanks. =)

  • Tranzformerz
    March 27, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    Hee hee, I figured it out. I didn’t see it in VS, but in Blend. Thanks. =)

  • discover
    June 10, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    “Ability to listen to handled routed events”
    ——-Could you talk about this new feature a bit please?
    I couldn’t find any further infomation about this anywhere on the Internet…

  • Nick
    June 21, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    Hi Karen,
    i really hope that you reply to this because i did not get any answer in the forum for my problem i have with AttachedProperty Bindings. I am asking you because you pointed out at Mix that AttachedProperty Bindings are now supported in Silverlight.

    What i am trying to do is to bind to a custom AttachedProperty in my ControlTemplate. That does not seem to work. Although its perfectly fine in WPF.
    Can you please plaease clarify if that works or not. Because i really banging my head.
    Here is the link to the thread.
    http://silverlight.net/forums/t/102737.aspx

    Regards
    Nick

  • admin
    June 24, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Hi Nick,

    Please try instead using a Binding with RelativeSource=TemplatedParent. TemplateBindings have limited support for attached DPs.

    Thanks!

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