Thursday, December 9, 2010

Silverlight 5 features

Features are follows:

Media:

  1. Hardware Decode
  2. Streaming
  3. Trickplay
  4. Power Management
  5. Remote Control

IIS Media Services 4.0

  1. Smoth streaming to Windows Phone 7,iPod
  2. Low latency live streaming
  3. Improved Performance , Delivery and Management

Data Binding:

  1. Debugging
  2. Markup Extension for MVVM
  3. Implicit Data template
  4. Ancestor relative source binding
  5. Binding in style setters
  6. DataContentChanged Event

WCF & RIA Services:

  1. WS-Trust support
  2. Low-latency networking
  3. MVVM friendly data source
  4. End-to-end support for complex types
  5. Windows azure support(with azure table storage)

Text and Printing:

  1. Text clarity
  2. Multicolumn text flow
  3. Character tracking and leading
  4. Full OpenType support
  5. Vector PostScript printing

Graphics:

  1. Immediate mode graphics API
  2. GPU acceleration 3D
  3. Fluid layout transition

Out-Of-Browser

  1. Multiple window support
  2. P/Invoke
  3. Enterprise Group Policy support

Test and Profiling Tools

  1. Automated UI testing
  2. Improved profiling support
    1. Memory
    2. CPU
    3. Thread contention
  3. Note: Automationhelper library

Performance:

  1. Faster startup
  2. Hardware acceleration with IE9
  3. 64-bit support