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We shipped today!  WAAHOO!!!

And this time, we’ve packaged up all the dev tools (including the runtime) in one package. 

So after you’ve installed Visual Studio 2010, go get Silverlight Tools here!

Go download the Silverlight 4 RC!

• Runtime (PC, Mac)
• Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010
• Expression Blend 4 Beta
• Silverlight Toolkit
• WCF RIA Services

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.

A couple folks on my team have recently started blogs.  If you haven’t already, check it out!

David Poll (blog)

• On-demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation – Revisited for Silverlight 4 Beta
• Opening up Silverlight 4 Navigation: Introduction to INavigationContentLoader

Jesse Bishop (blog)

• Dynamic Theming in Silverlight with Implicit Styles (plus Custom Build Events)
• Implementing a ContextMenu in Silverlight 4 Beta
• Surface multitouch gestures and inertia sample for Silverlight
• Multi-touch Gesture Recognition in Silverlight 3

Here’s a set of interesting Silverlight 4 links…

Bits & Tools

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta
• Silverlight 4 Beta Tools For Visual Studio 2010
• Developer Runtime (Windows, Mac)
  • Note: Runtime gets installed with the SL4 Beta Tools
• Expression Blend Preview for .NET 4 & Silverlight 4
• Silverlight Toolkit
• WCF RIA Services

Resources

• Silverlight.net
• Tim Heuer’s Guide to Silverlight 4 Beta Features
• Silverlight 4 Technical Feature Overview by John Papa
• NCL Team Blog (Networking)

Other Product Team Members’ Blogs

• David Poll
• Jesse Bishop
• Joe Stegman
• Seema Ramchandani

Our Four Official Silverlight Bloggers

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:

• WebCam
• Printing

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!

BusinessWeek published an article on the top global brands this year. 

It’s interesting to see who made this list – some of them are pretty obvious (e.g. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon).  Others make total sense, but I probably wouldn’t have guessed them (e,g,  Heinz, Burberry).

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.