Silverlight 3 Ships

Published on July 10, 2009 in life and work. 10 Comments Tags: , .

Silverlight 3 is out in the wild!!

(team-signed poster in my office)

Links to all the good stuff:

Some of the new Silverlight 3 features include…

  • Perspective 3D
  • Out of Browser
  • Validation UI & DataForm
  • H.264
  • Navigation Framework
  • DeepZoom Smooth Streaming*
  • SaveFileDialog
  • WriteableBitmap
  • Pixel Shaders
  • DropShadow/Blur Built-in Effects
  • ChildWindow
  • BasedOn Styles
  • MultiTouch Input*
  • ClearType*
  • Hardware Acceleration
  • Many New Controls
  • UI to UI Binding
  • New REST Networking Stack*
  • Animation Easing Functions
  • SEO Optimizations & Deep Linking
  • ItemsControl UI Virtualization*
  • Mouse Wheel Support*
  • Multi-Select ListBox

* Added since Silverlight 3 Beta

On a personal note…. Around Mix, I took over the PM position in the Silverlight 3 Shipping Triad.  It’s been an amazing (tiring, ridiculous, exhilarating) experience.  So, a shout out to the SL3 Triad, the always awesome framework feature teams, and the Silverlight team as a whole.  It’s been a privilege working with all of you.

This release was a special one for me.  :)

Karen

p.s.  If you read my blog, you know I’m on vacation right now.  :)   I made the call a few days ago to leave my laptop at home… So none of my SL3 Beta samples have been updated to RTW bits yet.  But I promise to when I’m back in Seattle.  In the meantime, enjoy playing with SL3!

10 Responses to “Silverlight 3 Ships”

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  • Erik W
    July 10, 2009 at 9:59 am

    Thanks for announcing this ahead of time guys…

  • Tanmoy
    July 10, 2009 at 10:51 am

    First :)

  • Steve
    July 10, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    I love the mouse wheel, it is like the cherry on top of the release. The zoom controled by the browser is another great touch

  • SilverlightExamples.NET
    July 11, 2009 at 12:34 am

    Congratulations and thanks to Silverlight team for delivering the much needed, much requested features in SL3. This I think marks the first LOB ready development platform since inception in 2007.

    There is one thing though. The penetration of SL3 run-time to end users is quite low and shallow. It would be awesome if Microsoft could put SL3 run-time as a recommended download in Windows Update asap. And developers should help push this great technology to their users. After all, it is only 4MB.

    Thank you

  • admin
    July 11, 2009 at 3:30 am

    @SilverlightExamples.NET Thanks! And yep, Silverlight 3 will be up on Microsoft Update soon. :)

  • Rob Zelt
    July 11, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Congrats on shipping a great product Karen! Enjoy your well deserved vacation!

  • Valery
    July 12, 2009 at 5:27 am

    Hi,

    I’ve played with template creation and encountered a problem with text selection in a text box after I’ve applied to it a template. Is there a way to reenable text selection and mouse interaction with text in text box? I’ve created a template basing on your mix09 presentation.

  • Corey Schuman
    July 12, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    Hey Karen, congrats on both the launch and the new gig on the SL team.

  • Marc Ziss
    July 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    Hey Karen, Great job to you and the whole SL team. I saw you speak @ Mix + Tech-ed and loved the snippet manager you used. I saw that you had it posted, but when I try using it in Win 7 and it doesn’t want to paste test when I drag it. Any ideas for a workaround (besides using a different laptop ;) )
    Thanks for everything!!!

  • Marc Ziss
    July 15, 2009 at 7:44 am

    As far as the issue I raised about the snippet manager not pasting properly; I figured it out. Because I run Visual Stuido with Admin rights; if the Snippet Manager isn’t run as admin as well it won’t paste. Simple fix run snippet manager as admin!

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