Silverlight FireStarter – Keynote

Scott Guthrie – VP @ Microsoft

Sample Applications built on Silverlight 4.0

• SAP
• Xerox
• Siemens
• Dell
• …

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Investments

• HTML 5
• Silverlight
• WPF

Silverlight Future

• Silverlight 5
  • Major new release with new enhancements:
    • Media
      • Hardware video decode
      • TrickPlay – variable speed for video and audio
      • Better Power Management
      • Remote Control Experience
      • At the Server Side of things:
        • IIS Media Services 4.0
          • Smooth Streaming to Windows Phone 7 and iPhone
          • Low-Latency Live Streaming
          • Management
          • Silverlight Media Framework app for Windows Phone 7 available on CodePlex
          • Announcement IIS Media Services Support for Windows Azure
    • Applications
      • Customer Story: DayForce has a SaaS solution for Workforce Management
      • Enhancements
        • Data binding
          • Debugging
            • Capability of placing Breakpoints inside the XAML
          • Markup Extensions for MVVM – Converging the SL and WPF DataBinding Capabilities
          • Implicit Data Templates
          • FindAncestor RelativeSource Binding
          • Binding Styles Setters – This is very important since Binding is now supported inside the Silverlight Value property of Setter
          • DataContextChanged Event
          • Layout Transitions
            • Simplification of the XAML needed to develop Animations
      • New Features
        • WCF & RIA Services
          • WS-Trust
          • Low latency Networking
          • MVVM friendly DataSource
          • End-to-End Support for Complex Types
          • Windows Azure support
        • Text & Printing
          • Text Clarity
          • Multicolumn Text Flow
          • Character tracking and Leading
          • Full OpenType Support
          • Vector PostScript Printing
        • PivotViewer will be part of the Silverlight 5.0 SDK
        • Graphics
          • Immediate Mode Graphics API
          • GPU accelarated 3D
          • Fluid Layout Transitions
          • Real 3D
        • Out-of-Browser Support
          • Multiple Windows Support
          • P/Invoke
          • Enterprise Group Policy Support
        • Test & Perf Tools
          • Automated UI Testing
          • Improved Profiling Support
            • Memory
            • CPU
            • Thread contention
        • Performance
          • Faster Setup
          • Hardware acceleration with IE9
          • Real 64bit
    • Sample App by the SQL Server Team
      • SQL Reporting Services like app Built in Silverlight 5.0
      • SQL Crescent
  • Features defined using the UserVoice
    • 70% of the votes are now in Silverlight 5

• Timeline
  • First public Beta during Spring 2011
  • Final Release Later 2011