Silverlight 3 Beta + expression blend 3 Preview is coming ~

Many people may see that today, on mix 09, Microsoft released Silverlight 3 beta. The new version includes more than 50 new features and more than 20 new controls. At the same time, it brings a new development and design tool expression blend 3 to developers and designers to build applications better and faster.Program. Recall that a year and a half ago, Silverlight was released. Today, many developers, designers, and users have installed the Silverlight environment, many developers and designers have built many cutting-edge RIA and multimedia solutions. Today, Silverlight has 0.3 billion downloads, over 0.4 million developers and designers are using it, more than 200 partners from over 30 countries, and thousands of applications, there are more than 200 siliverlight applications on Microsoft products and websites. These are the results from Silverlight 1.0 to 2.0 in a year and a half.

 

What does Silverlight 3 bring to us? What are the new features?

Greatly enhance the media experience. The Out of Browser allows web applications to work on the client. Massive Image Processing improvements include 3D image processing, GPU acceleration and H.264 image support, as well as many features that enhance RIA development efficiency. Visual Studio 2008/2010 and Visual Web Developer express provide comprehensive development support for Silverlight.

• New out of browser experienceBuilt in Silverlight 3, users can directly deploy their favorite Silverlight applications to any PC or Mac desktop. This completely changes the traditional RIA that uses different technologies to write browser and desktop applications. In addition, the new experience allows Silverlight applications to work regardless of whether they are connected to the Internet.

• Smooth streaming-Support native H. 264, live with PVR and On-Demand iis7 smooth streaming, Full HD (720 p +) playback, and scalable decoder pipeline, Silverlight 3 will bring a wealth, full Screen and extremely smooth HD media experience!

• RIA development-Building is now faster and easier, because Silverlight 3 has more than 60 high-quality, fully-skin custom controls and supports advanced data verification and binding.

• 3D image and animation Enhancement-Designers and developers can now build outstanding image-related applications, thanks to 3D hardware acceleration and text enhancement in Silverlight 3.

 

There are also many new features. I believe my friends in the garden will introduce them one by one. I just want to give some important points for your reference. Don't forget to install:

Silverlight 3 tools for Visual Studio

Expression blend 3 Preview

We recommend that you:Silverlight ToolkitAfter installation, you can obtain many Silverlight control resources.

 

So far, more performance and features are waiting for us to continue exploring.