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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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Code Analysis breaks due to RIA?

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Export Images to PDF

I have a project that has to export images to PDF. Images and text alike are needed to be exported into pdf. is there a way to do this by using silverPDF.dll and PdfReader? Code here. private void btnOutlook_Click(object sender,…
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Silverlight 5 and VertexBuffer.GetData()

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I want to change the Style of a TextBlock if the value of the bound property is null. I have specified a value for TargetNullValue of the TextBlock to be displayed, but i want to display it with an alternativ style. How can i do it. My current…
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