Presentation for the Toronto Silverlight User Group covering highlights of the recently announced Silverlight 3 from Microsoft

1. What’s New in
Silverlight 3.0

2. What‟s New
• Media support
• Perspective 3D
• Local messaging
• Framework improvements
 Styling
 Resources
 Controls
 Data at design time
• Out-of browser (SLOOB)

3. H.264/AAC/MP4
• Silverlight 3 supports H.264/AAC/MP4
• Industry standard format
 Hardware decoders on most devices
 YouTube, iPhone, Flash supported format
 Base format for QuickTime and iTunes
• Live/On-Demand 720p+ HD Smooth
Streaming
• Extensibility at the raw AV pipeline level

4. GPU Acceleration
• Opt-in feature on the Silverlight 3 plug-in
 Enables final surface draw with the GPU
• Opt-in feature per Element
 Use GPU to blend/composite multiple Elements
 Use GPU to stretch Elements
• Works in-browser and in full-screen mode
• Scenarios:
 Performance – no other visual impact

5. Perspective 3D
• Perspective 3D
 Not to be confused with the true 3D functionality
offered by WPF
• Put 2D objects in 3D space
• Rotate in any of the three axes
 Can also offset the point of rotation

6. Animation Easing
• Premise: Can‟t replicate real-life physics
using purely linear animations
• SL3 adds stock animation easing functions
 Elastic, Bouncing, Circles, Sines, various exponential
• Also provides EasingFunctionBase so that
you can create your own

7. Local Messaging
• Cross plug-in Silverlight communication
 Between plug-ins on the same page, different browser
tabs or different browsers
• Implementation
 Shared memory
 Exposed like “named pipes”
 String based messages

8. New Controls
• Data Controls (DataPager, DataForm)
• Containers (DockPanel, WrapPanel, TabPanel)
• Expander
• Label
• TreeView
• ViewBox
• ChildWindow
• DatePickerTextBox
• And more

9. UI Framework Improvements
• Merged Resource Dictionaries
• BasedOn Styles
• Styles can be changed at runtime
• New VSM “Invalid” states
 Provides a mechanism for validation
 Supported on TextBox, CheckBox, ComboBox,
ListBox, RadioButton, PasswordBox (not in Beta)

10. Silverlight “Out of the Browser”
• Part of the standard Silverlight core
 No additional download required
• Enabled on a „by-application‟ basis
• User gesture to take “out of the browser”
 Right click
 Custom button in the application
• Can detect network state
 Connected, disconnected and changed state
 Launch state, update APIs

11. Other Big Additions
• Line of Business functionality
 Navigation Framework
 Data at Design Time
 SEO Support
 N-Tier data support (RIA .NET Services, post SL3)
• Web Service Stack Improvements
 Binary XML, SOAP faults, Credentials
• Silverlight Toolkit Release

12. More Information
• http://www.silverlight.net
• MIX Conference content -
http://www.visitmix.com
• Tim Heuer‟s Blog - http://timheuer.com/blog
• Shawn Wildermuth‟s Blog -
http://wildermuth.com/

13. Questions?
• My contact information
 EMail: bjohnson@objectsharp.com
 Twitter: LACanuck
 Blog: http://www.objectsharp.com/blogs/bruce
 MSN: lacanadians@hotmail.com