PDC Keynote – Day 2 – Part 2
Scott Guthrie on Stage, talking about Silverlight now deployed on around 45% of computers worldwide.
And… Announcing Silverlight 4 :
- Web Cam and Microphone
- including video and stills + effects
- Also showing a barcode application like the one exists for iPhone, showing how you can scan a barcode, and it can give you the product details through a web service.
- Showing Silverlight player with pausing, real-time rewinding and slow motion options.
- IPhone that have http streaming format and you’ll be able to publish through IIS the output to iPhone although it doesn’t support Silverlight at the moment, for streaming of course, not for a full blown SL app at the moment.
- Business applications -
- Printing – directly print and make your own printing preview dialog
- Rich Text
- Clipboard Access
- Right Click
- Mouse Wheel
- Implicit Styling
- Drag/Drop ! works beautifully
- Bidi & RTL
- HTML – host HTML control in SL application
- Host any plug-in control in it like flash
- Commanding and MVVM !
- Additional controls as well extending existing controls and …..
- Supporting Hebrew !!!! and Arabic + some Asian languages
- Select text from data grid and copying it to excel
- Flip between left and right scroll bars
- Share Assemblies across SL and .NET 4
- Data Binding Improvements
- UDP Multicast Support
- REST Enhancements
- WCF improvements and RIA Services
- VS2010
- Design Surface
- XAML Instellisense
- Data Binding, Layout Styles
- WCF REST
- Data Sources window works with SL, so you can drag data source from that window and you get a thing that looks like the way available for Win forms, but there are way more options, include more control on the generated XAML.
- Support for Data Annotations that you may be familiar with, on ASP.NET Dynamic data (if you are not familiar with that concepts you can look at web casts I made earlier this year on that matter).
- Notification Support and Windows API
- Elevated Trust when running outside the browser !! Enabling :
- Custom Windows Chrome
- Local File System
- Cross-Site Network
- Keyboard in Full Screen Mode
- Hardware device Access
- COM Automation Support
- For example :
- work with Office
- Location APIs
- Performance
- Twice as Fast
- 30% Faster startup
- New Profiling support
- Support for Google Chrome !
Next Showing a facebook application using these options and I can tell you that it looks just great!
Silverlight 4 Beta is available for download and it’s suppose to go out on the first half of 2010.
* Earlier scott showed some brush options like scrambling parts of Rick Ashley Video (of course not selected by random since it’s sarcastic way to apply to the so called iPhone virus shown Rick photo on iPhone background, that was spread a few weeks ago).