A Lap Around Silverlight 5Frank La Vigne

US Public Sector Developer EvangelistMicrosoft Corp

FrankLa@Microsoft.com@tableteer

http://www.franksworld.com

I <3 Silverlight!

The Future

The Big Picture

Problems Silverlight Solves

1. Engaging user experience

2. Cross platform3. Web deployment4. Great tooling5. Testable

Why Should We CareAbout User Experience?

This is an Interface

This is an Experience

Bad Experience is Bad Business

Silverlight 5

Shiny New Features• XAML Debugging with breakpoints for

binding debugging• Implicit data templates for easy UI reuse• Double (and multi) click support• GPU-accelerated XNA-compatible 3D and

immediate-mode 2D API• Low-latency sound effects and WAV

support• Real operating system windows and

multi-display support• Vector Printing for sharper printouts• Significant performance improvements,

fixes and much more

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Variable Speed Playback

Audio Pitch Correction

Seamless DRM switching

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Text Clarity

Vector Printing

Pivot

Graphics API

XNA GPU 3D

Linked Text Container

OpenType Support

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P/Invoke

Group Policy Support

Trusted Apps in browser

Unrestricted file system access

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VS Profiling

Databinding Debugging

IE9 Hardware Acceleration

64 Bit support

Multicore JIT performance

Text Layout Performance

Network Latency Reduction for HTTP

http://frnk.us/Silverlight5FeatureList

3D

Out of Browser, Multiple Windows

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