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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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WScript.Shell Run gives "No application is associated with the specified file for this operation." when opening images.

I am facing an issue while trying to open an image file from a Silverlight app in Windows 10 using WScript.Shell. The code is as follows. try { dynamic shell = AutomationFactory.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"); …
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Adding navigation:Frame causes NullReferenceException

I am building a 3D application with Silverlight 5. I have a DrawingSurface which calls a method. However, when I add a navigation:Frame to my XAML, I then get an error thrown. Here is the method in question: private void DrawingSurface_Draw(object…
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You need to install the latest silverlight developer runtime before opening silverlight project

When I open silverlight project in vs2010 it'll show me the dialogbox with error " You need to install the latest silverlight developer runtime before opening silverlight project" and provide me link "go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=146060" , while…
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Using Unity to inject objects into IValueConverter instance

I have an instance of IValueConverter in a Silverlight 5 project, which converts custom data into different colors. I need to read the actual color values from a database (as these can be edited by the user). Since Silverlight uses asynchronous…
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Upgrade From Silverlight 4 to Silverlight 5 causing AccessViolationException

We have upgraded our project from Silverlight 4 to Silverlight 5 and now we are experiencing AccessViolationException from time to time in different places in the code, this exception is also causing the browser to crash. Is there any guideline how…
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Using GPU on Silverlight 5 for general-purpose math

I'm working on an in-browser Silverlight application that has some fairly compute-intensive operations, e.g., running an Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform, or a Fast Fourier Transform, hundreds of times a second. It would be valuable to be able to…
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Why is the DLL from a PCL project an x86 assembly?

I have a C# project in Visual Studio 2012 that is a PCL, targeting these platforms (I removed the names): When I try to add the dll, from a successful build, to a Silverlight 5 project in VS2013, I am getting this warning and it doesn't seem to…
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Chrome does not show network traffic of Silverlight RIA services messages after update to version 32.0.1700.76 m

Couple days ago Google Chrome automatically updated from version 31.* to version 32.0.1700.76 m. After that happened it does not show in DevTools network traffic request/responses of "application/msbin1" type anymore. These requests are visible in…
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Autocompletebox SelectedText Bug

I want to bind both the SelectedText and SelectedItem properties of an AutocompleteBox because my client wants to be able to input text and select from the list also. It's working properly but ... The MainPage has one DataGrid. When I select a…
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SaveFileDialog of silverlight is giving error "Dialog must be user-initiated"

I am getting an error: Dialog must be user-initiated when I am opening the savefile dialog from my silverlight applicaiton I am using below code Main Button click event : private void btnSaveAttach_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) …
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EF5 Code First and RIA Services Silverlight "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error building client

I am working on setting up a new project using Code First for entity framework 5 in silverlight using RIA services. I have created a test project due to some issues I have encountered and will post the code below. Namely, I get an 'Object…
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How to detect back button or forward button navigation in a silverlight navigation application

When a Page is navigated to in silverlight you can override this method. protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e) { base.OnNavigatedTo(e); } The NavigationEventArgs has a NavigationMode enumeration which is defined as…
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Remaining validation tooltip on TabControl

I have a problem with a TabControl, a TextBox and a validation ToolTip. Imagine having a TabControl with two TabItems. On the first item there is a simple TextBox. This TextBox Text property is bound to a string property of the UserControl itself…
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ToggleButton/CheckBox content depending on its checked state?

What's the shortest xamly way to make a ToggleButton contents depend on its checked state? In WPF I'd probably go for a DataTrigger which doesn't exist in Silverlight. I tried the following, but it doesn't work, as soon as I include the triggers,…
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Disposing of ViewModels in Caliburn Micro and Castle Windsor

I'm using Castle-Windsor as my container in a Caliburn-Micro Silverlight app. My ViewModel objects are reasonably chunky as they call WCF services and a bunch of other stuff. Therefore, when a window is closed I want to call…
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