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Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for media experiences and rich interactive applications. The latest Silverlight version available is Silverlight 5.

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful tool for creating and delivering rich Internet applications and media experiences on the Web. Silverlight 5 builds on the foundation of Silverlight 4 for building business applications and premium media experiences. Among other capabilities, the Silverlight 5 highlights dramatic video quality and performance improvements, and features that improve developer productivity.

Download Silverlight 5 from http://www.silverlight.net/downloads

Top Release Candidate Features

Binding and Related

  • ICustomTypeProvider
  • Custom Markup Extensions
  • Ancestor RelativeSource Binding
  • Implicit Data Templates
  • Binding in Style Setters
  • DataContextChanged Event (new since beta)
  • PropertyChanged now an UpdateSourceTrigger option (new since beta)

Graphics

  • XNA 3D API
  • Improved Graphics Stack
  • 3D Render targets (new since beta)
  • XNA 3D built-in effects (new since beta)
  • 3D surface composition settings (new since beta)
  • 3D multi-sample anti-aliasing (new since beta)

Media

  • Low-Latency Sound using XNA SoundEffect and SoundEffectInstance
  • Hardware decoding of H.264 media
  • Variable Speed Playback and Trick-play (new since beta)
  • Remote Control and Media Command (Keys) Support (new since beta)

Text

  • Text Tracking and Leading
  • Linked and Multi-column Text
  • OpenType Support (new since beta)
  • Pixel Snapped Text and TextOptions (new since beta)

Operating System Integration

  • P/Invoke (new since beta)
  • Multiple Windows
  • Unrestricted File System Access in Full Trust
  • Full Trust in-browser
  • Default Filename in SaveFileDialog and OpenFileDialog (new since beta)
  • 64 bit browser support (new since beta)
  • Power awareness for media apps (keep the PC alive while a movie is playing, for example) (new since beta)

Productivity and Performance

  • Network Latency Improvements
  • Databinding Debugging
  • Parser Performance Improvements
  • Multi-core JIT for improved start-up time

Controls

  • Double and n-click support
  • PivotViewer (new since beta)
  • ComboBox type-ahead/incremental search

Other

  • In-browser HTML
  • PostScript Vector Printing (new since beta)
  • Tasks from TPL (new since beta)
  • C# Covariance and Contravariance

More on this list at Pete's Blog.

See also:

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Where does business logic sit in MVVM?

I am used to developing with N-Tier architecture, i.e. Data Access Layer, Business Logic Layer, etc Can anyone provide any advice or links about the best location for my business logic? Do I put all of this into classes within the Models folder of…
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Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.List' to 'System.Linq.IQueryable'

I am trying to create a query in my domain service (VS 2010 Silverlight Business Application) that returns the results from inspection readings that came out as a specific value, my database is set up as: Locations a) Inspections b)…
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"The tag 'MenuItem' does not exist in XML namespace 'clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Input.Toolkit'" error

I'm getting an error trying to build a Silverlight application on a new machine. (Silverlight 4, Visual Studio 2010) This application compiles without error on four other machines. The error is: the tag 'MenuItem' does not exist in XML namespace…
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Safari downloading older version of Silverlight (Getting SL 4 instead of SL 5)

I have a website using Silverlight 5, when an user from Mac wants to visit the site using Safari (because with FF and Chrome it do not work correctly), Safari shows a message: "You need to install Silverlight please click here", when the user clicks…
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IE 10 and 11 hang when "Mixed Content" dialog appears

We are looking for solution to resolve strange IE browser behaviour when Mixed Content Warning Dialog appears. We develop a video platform based on Silverlight 5. The site relies on the HTTPS protocol, but video content is being transmitted via…
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Silverlight 5.0 debugging issue on Windows 10

I've recently upgraded my OS to Windows 10. I have a very basic Silverlight 5 application which gives me Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight Developer Runtime Not Installed. Please Installed a matching version error in VS 2010 whenever I am…
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How to set up data binding for group radio button in Silverlight?

Sliverlight provides radio button with GroupName to group radiobutton together with only one option from mutiple choice. It's like:
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Coded UI Test not finding SilverlightUIAutomationHelper assembly

I'm trying to do some coded UI tests with Visual Studio 2010 on my SharePoint 2010 site. A particular file in SharePoint launches my Silverlight application in a separate window. I've added the SilerlightUIAutomationHelper assembly as a reference in…
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Silverlight Out-of-Browser application will not close using MainWindow.Close method

I have a Silverlight 5.1.10411.0 Out-of-Browser application that is NOT trusted and I am trying to close the application using the App.Current.MainWindow.Close method. According to the documentation I can only use this mechanism if one of these…
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Get assembly reference without reflection or a known type

In my current framework's design, I peruse all types of specific assemblies and do work based on the types found. The assemblies it searches through are determined by the application bootstrapper/initializer. The assemblies are compiled in, so…
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Event throttling / queuing - Reactive Extensions?

I am looking to implement some throttling behavior into one of my viewmodels. It's a silverlight application, however I don't think that's particularly important. Consider a class with three properties: Property1 Property2 Property3 Whenever one…
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Silverlight 5 Backward Compatibility

I have a Silverlight application developed with version 4.0. I tried running it with Silverlight 5 client and everything seems to be fine up to now. But I am wondering; if my users installs Silverlight 5 for client, is it sure my application will…
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Is there any support for mouse wheel and Apple track-pad in Silverlight 5?

One of my Silverlight applications has some users to use it on Apple Macs. They complain that the mouse wheel and track-pad don't work. From the research I've done, it seems that this isn't supported in browser-hosted applications on Macs. Does…
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HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication Required while accessing Amazon S3

I have tried everything but I cant seem to fix this issue that is happening for only one client behind a corporate proxy/firewall. Our Silverlight application connects to Amazon S3 for downloading/Uploading some documents. On one client and one…
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Can Silverlight OOB or WebHosted be built under x64 platform?

I made a test SL5 OOB project and tried to build under x64 platform but I get the warning: "Assembly generation -- Referenced assembly 'CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary' targets a different processor". and an error: Error 2 Could not load file or…
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