Go download the Silverlight 4 RC!
Just a few of my favorite new SL4 RC features since the Beta:
- Full screen pinning (watch videos full screen while typing in a different window, on a different monitor. wahoo for multi-tasking!)
- Rich text formatting spring loading (be able to hit bold and just watch it work)
- WebCam preview (see previews of the web cam in the config dialog)
- Binding support in VisualStates (use databinding in your state storyboards)
- Navigation loader refresh (support refreshing a Page in a Frame)
Go download Silverlight for Windows Phone Developer Tools!
In this package, you’ll get:
- Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone CTP
- Windows Phone Emulator CTP
- Silverlight for Windows Phone CTP
- XNA 4.0 Game Studio CTP
Read more about Windows Phone 7 Development here.
I’m so excited about MIX10!
Here’s a list of key Silverlight sessions. If you’re not in Vegas, catch the keynotes (live!) and sessions (24hours delayed) at http://live.visitmix.com.
| Time |
Session |
Speaker |
Room |
Mon
11:30 – 12:30pm |
Microsoft Silverlight 4 Overview: What’s in Store for Silverlight 4? |
Keith Smith |
Mandalay Ballroom D |
Mon
2:00 – 3:00pm |
Overview of the Windows Phone 7 Series Application Platform |
Charlie Kindel |
Mandalay Ballroom A |
Mon
3:30 – 4:30pm |
Stepping Outside the Browser with Microsoft Silverlight 4 |
Ashish Shetty |
Breakers H |
Tue
11:00 – 12:00pm |
Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Applications |
Scott Morrison |
Lagoon H |
Tue
11:30 – 11:55am |
Microsoft Silverlight “Media”: Moving at 60fps |
Eric Schmidt |
Breakers H |
Tue
1:30 – 2:30pm |
Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight,
Part 1 |
Mike Harsh |
Mandalay Ballroom A |
Tue
3:00 – 4:00pm |
Building Windows Phone Applications with Silverlight,
Part 2 |
Peter Torr |
Mandalay Ballroom A |
Tue
3:00 – 3:25pm |
Building an Accessible Microsoft Silverlight Experience |
Mark Rideout |
Lagoon B |
Tue
4:30- 4:55pm |
Silverlight Performance on Windows Phone |
Seema Ramchandani |
Lagoon B |
Wed
10:30 – 10:55am |
Flash Skills Applied to Microsoft Silverlight Design and Development |
Adam Kinney |
Lagoon B |
A couple folks on my team have recently started blogs. If you haven’t already, check it out!
David Poll (blog)
Jesse Bishop (blog)
Here’s a set of interesting Silverlight 4 links…
Bits & Tools
Resources
Other Product Team Members’ Blogs
Our Four Official Silverlight Bloggers
Adam Kinney
Jesse Liberty
John Papa
Tim Heuer
Thank you to everyone who came to my overview talk yesterday!
My session video has already been posted online. You can also download the deck here.
You can find online all the other Silverlight PDC session videos.
As promised, you’ll find the code for all the demos below (and links to run the app, where possible).
But first, a few thank yous….
I got help from a bunch of people on the Silverlight team while putting together the demos and content for this talk. So a big thank you to all of you! (And to Walter VonKoch on the IE team for help with the Windows RSS Feed Service apis.)
Also, a HUGE “shout out” to the Silverlight team. As I mention in the talk, we’ve shipped three versions of Silverlight in less than 2 years… and to follow that with a Beta of Silverlight 4 so soon afterwards… it’s just amazing. 
Here are the demos…
Scrapbook App
(Code, Live App)
Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:
- Drag Drop onto Silverlight
- Right Click Event Support
- Printing
PDC Photobooth App
(Code, Live App)
Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:
Classroom Proctor App
(Code)
Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:
- UDP Support for Multicast Solutions
- Navigation Loader Extensibility
- Authentication Support in Client Http Networking Stack
- INotifyDataErrorInfo Asynchronous Data Validation
- Implicit Styles
- RichTextArea
- BiDi Script & Right to Left FlowDirection
- Programmatic Clipboard
- Expression Blend Fluid Layout Support for ListBox
- Google Chrome Browser Support
Note: in order to run this application, you will need to set up a Silverlight Multicast Server. An example of a server can be found here. You can use the policy file found here.
FeedReader
(Code, Live App)
Note: you must Right-Click to install this application.
Shows Silverlight 4 Beta features:
- WebBrowser HTML Hosting
- HTMLBrush
- Trusted Applications with Native Integration via COM Interop
- Notification Windows
As our VP ScottGu just announced in the PDC Keynote, Silverlight 4 Beta ships today! Get the bits here.
If you’re at PDC, I’ll be giving the Silverlight 4 Beta Overview session in an hour (CL01, 11:30am Hall F).
Here are some other great Silverlight PDC Talks!
And it uses Silverlight!
Bing Visual Search enables you to search the web using images as your “keywords” (as opposed to well, word keywords). Check it out here.
Thanks to Joe for calling out the new Silverlight feature request tracker. Tim Heuer and Scott Barnes have set up this list up to help us get feedback from the community.
We’re definitely looking closely at this list! Please cast your votes.
Now using ChildWindow, Validation UI and more!
Go here to see the app and get the code.
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!
