Silverlight 3 is here!!! The Silverlight platform has come a long way (in a relatively short period of time) from a scriptable graphics and media runtime into a full-fledged platform for developing Rich Internet Applications, using managed code, the goodness of application frameworks and controls, and great tools such as Visual Studio and Expression. In my MIX ?09 post , I listed the following: Graphics and Media Capabilities - GPU support, perspective transforms, pixel shader effects, media smooth streaming, new codecs, including ability to write your own, better text rendering, etc. Data - Lots of new data controls (such as DataForm), data-binding improvements, and validation. Application model - ability to use library cache for reducing xap...(read more) ...
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