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Microsoft Announces Silverlight 4 Beta
Published on: November 19th, 2009 @ 9:57 AM UTC by William Johnson |
Yesterday at their Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, California Microsoft announced the availability of Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 delivers a full suite of powerful capabilities to business application developers, bringing the best-of-breed .NET platform to browser-based experiences. Silverlight provides an ideal platform for developing and deploying modern business applications for both customer facing and staff-facing applications.
Silverlight 4 introduces additional capabilities to enable creation of ever more rich, appealing high-performance interactive experiences and innovative media experiences:
- Fluid interface enhancements advance application usability through animation effects.
- Webcam and microphone to allow sharing of video and audio for instance for chat or customer service applications.
- Audio and video local recording capabilities capture RAW video without requiring server interaction, enabling a wide range of end-user interaction and communication scenarios for example video conferencing.
- Bring data in to your application with features such as copy and paste or drag and drop.
- Long lists can now be scrolled effortlessly with the mouse wheel.
- Support conventional desktop interaction models through new features such as right-click context menu.
- Support for Google’s Chrome browser.
- Performance optimizations mean Silverlight 4 applications start quicker and run 200% faster than the equivalent Silverlight 3 application.
- Deep Zoom enhancements include hardware acceleration to support larger datasets and faster animation.
- Multi-touch support enables a range of gestures and touch interactions to be integrated into user experiences.
- Multicast networking, enabling Enterprises to lower the cost of streaming broadcast events such as company meetings and training, interoperating seamlessly with existing Windows Media Server streaming infrastructure.
- Content protection for H.264 media through Silverlight DRM powered by PlayReady.
- Output protection for audio/video streams allowing content owners or distributors to ensure protected content is only viewed through a secure video connection.
As a Silverlight developer, I am excited about a lot of these features that are coming with Silverlight 4. If you haven’t had a chance to get the Silverlight 4 beta tools, you can do so by going to the following link:
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