Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 Goes Live

[gaurang]

Version 3 bring more than 50 new features to Microsoft Silverlight.

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[nathan]

Version 3 bring more than 50 new features to Microsoft Silverlight.

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certainly glad both flash and silverlight are using gpu acceleration. At least the nettops with ion can now play iplayer/skyplayer.

 

[midnightray]

Interesting at work we have been playing around with version 2 and its charting options, will be interested to see if they have added more chart types and made it easier to bind data to them

 

[alexhull24]

Do you need a certain level of GPU/driver revision to benefit from the acceleration?

 

[nathan]

Do you need a certain level of GPU/driver revision to benefit from the acceleration?

I dont think so, it just uses the hardware aclleration

 

[Rastalovich]

Don't know much about this.

Is it a direct opponent to Flash ? And does it need to be specifically written for ?

 

[nathan]

Don't know much about this.

Is it a direct opponent to Flash ? And does it need to be specifically written for ?

yes and yes, you use microsoft expression blend to write for it (in XAML), you can tie it into your usual .net projects too.

Microsoft say its now installed on 1 in 4 pc's. Still only 25% of computers.

 

[midnightray]

yes and yes, you use microsoft expression blend to write for it (in XAML), you can tie it into your usual .net projects too.

Microsoft say its now installed on 1 in 4 pc's. Still only 25% of computers.

Actually we used Microsoft Visual Studio to develop Silverlight applications. Expression Blend is aimed at making it easier designing the pretty stuff. Its much easier to develop in Silverlight than Flash from the perspective of a .NET developer as Visual Studio is free (Express is) and it uses similar structures such as code behind classes to handle OnClick and Load events etc.

 

[nathan]

Actually we used Microsoft Visual Studio to develop Silverlight applications. Expression Blend is aimed at making it easier designing the pretty stuff. Its much easier to develop in Silverlight than Flash from the perspective of a .NET developer as Visual Studio is free (Express is) and it uses similar structures such as code behind classes to handle OnClick and Load events etc.

i see, you played with VS 2010 beta yet? they've finally changed the bloody start screen!!