September 2011 - Posts
As already announced elsewhere, I am attending this year's PDC, a.k.a. BUILD. Despite the numerous leaks regarding Windows 8 APIs and accompanying tools, I believe Microsoft people still has a few tricks up their sleeves, and am pretty excited to be there alongside some of the world's top experts in .NET technologies.
If you happen to be in the Los Angeles area between September 10 and 17, or better yet, are yourself an attendant, drop me a line, and I'll be more than happy to meet you in person.
Silverlight 5 RC is available for
download (Yes, I know, I'm
a little late).
Silverlight 5 introduces some interesting features, including the following:
- P/Invoke (woot!)
- Custom MarkupExtensions (yay!)
- Implicit DataTemplates
- Ancestor RelativeSource binding
- Binding debugging
- Multiple OOB windows
- 64-bit plugin
This release candidate marks another step towards SL/WPF feature parity. WPF developers are now at greater liberty to utilize their tried toolset within the (relatively) new framework natively, rather than resort to various workarounds (Arik's our own!).
As Tomer and I are actively trying to convince a customer to move their (nonexistent as yet) WPF client to Silverlight, this is great news received just in time!
Update: Pete Brown has a full list of Silverlight 5 RC features.