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Top 3 What's There and Not There for Silverlight 3 Beta 1

2009-04-16T13:29:33Z

Some great new stuff is coming in Silverlight 3. I wanted to share 3 of my favorite new features and 3 things I'd like to see soon. First, here is the list of items I want to see at some point in Silverlight:

Printing support direct from the browser
Direct webcam support
ClearType (well, its coming, isn't it?)

And here is my list of my 3 top items that are coming in Silverlight 3.

Out of Browser (OOB) support
Perspective 3D, Effects, Pixel Shaders, GPU acceleration, Animation Easing and other graphics
Assembly Caching

My list is not the biggest nor best features per se, but its the list of items that I find very interesting personally. For a different perspective, you can read Ken Azuma's thoughts on Silverlight 3 here, too.

What are your top features that are in or not in Silverlight 3?

Comment from John Farrar on 2009-04-16

2009-04-16T19:18:56Z

So how does this compare to Adobe AIR? (Or at least what is your take on the subject.)

Comment from Charles Mawby on 2009-04-16

2009-04-16T20:28:34Z

Redmond is gunning for Adobe bigtime. Watch out!

Competition is good... Embrace, extend, etc, etc...

Comment from Justin J. Moses on 2009-04-16

2009-04-17T00:32:19Z

I rate RIA Services as a very nice addition to Silverlight 3.

Being able to write the one code base for both the client and the server is no mean feat.

Comment from papa on 2009-04-16

2009-04-17T01:28:27Z

so what is the top 3 downside, or top 3 upcoming downside?

Comment from Terence Tsang on 2009-04-16

2009-04-17T03:52:54Z

I want an unload event in the control.

Comment from Ugo Ducharme on 2009-04-17

2009-04-17T12:47:38Z

This article is too short!

Comment from Greg on 2009-04-17

2009-04-17T12:55:03Z

1) wsHttpBinding
2) wsHttpBinding
3) wsHttpBinding

1) Navigation/deep linking
2) Binary XML
3) TransportSecurityWithMessageCredential

I must be the only person, looking at the blog activity, doing Silverlight work to be NOT excited about out of browser. I just can't see what benefit it brings.

Comment from nmreddy on 2009-06-29

2009-06-29T22:32:39Z

i believe one more item also missing for Out of Browser application..

I am curious to put my Out Of Browse application in Notification Area (Tray Icon). Especially when user minimizes my Out of Browser applications it should keep one ICON in Notification Area. Once he gets some alert or To-Do operation, it will show one “Notification Window” (like Outlook New Mail Notification Window). Is it possible to these kind of operations in Silverlight

thank you,
-nm reddy