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What is new in Silverlight 5 Beta

By Kalyan Bandarupalli
In Microsoft, Silverlight
June 12, 2011
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This post discusses the features in Silverlight 5 Beta. One of the greatest features                              image

in Silverlight 5 is tooling. Features are listed below

Binding

  • Breakpoints in XAML for debugging binding
  • Binding in style setters
  • Implicit Data Templates

Media

  • Sound effect for low-latency sound using the SoundEffect API
  • Variable speed playback
  • For performance boost H.264 media is now hardware decoded

Text

  • Linked Rich Text Boxes for seamless overflow and multi-column text

Input

  • Click count for multi-click support eg: double click
  • Listbox/Combobox type-ahead text searching

Graphics

  • Graphics stack improved using independent animations
  • XNA 3D API for low-level access to GPU, vertex shaders and 3D primitives.

Getting Started

Remember it is still in Beta so it may contain bugs

Install Visual Studio 2010 SP1

visit http://silverlight.net

Install Silverlight 5 Beta tools for Visual Studio 2010

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My name is kalyan, I am a software architect and builds the applications using Microsoft .NET technologies. Here I am trying to share what I feel and what I think with whoever comes along wandering to Internet home of mine.I hope that this page and its contents will speak for me and that is the reason I am not going to say anything specially about my self here.

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