Contents tagged with Silverlight
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Unexpected changes from Silverlight 3 Beta to RTW, The Good and The Confusing
By now, everyone should know that Silverlight 3 is official. Born on July 10th at a big launch event in San Francisco, Silverlight 3 completes the 9 month cycle of improvement that kicked-off immediately after the official release of Silverlight 2 in October of 2008. -
XAML : Developers :: Modern CG : Spielberg & Lucas
For anyone having trouble understanding this post's title, it's old analogy syntax: XAML is to Developers as Modern CG is to Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Still not making sense? Let me provide some more explanation.
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Silverlight Mobile Road Map Refresher
In keeping with my apparent "theme" this week of providing you with some Silverlight detail refreshers, I want to bring-up the topic of Silverlight for mobile platforms. While it has been widely known since the earliest days of Silverlight that mobile platforms would be supported, little attention (or scrutiny) has really been applied to the portable plug-in. In fact, if I were to ask you to tell me about Silverlight's mobile plans right now, you'd probably list these details:
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Isolated Storage changes in Silverlight 2
This isn't exactly what you call "breaking" news, but it is news that I don't see getting enough coverage. I also just noticed that I've been doling out bad info in my recent Silverlight 2 beta 1 presentations, so I wanted to take a minute to correct the record and set things straight.
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What's cooking for Silverlight 3.0?
Even though Silverlight 2.0 has yet to see the "official" light of day, we know that the beta introduced at MIX08 represents a "feature complete" version for this release cycle. Between beta 1 and the RTM expected towards the end of summer, Microsoft will not add any major new features to the Silverlight platform. Instead, they'll focus on performance improvements, platform stability, and a number of other "polish" issues like ClientBin security.