brushpen.net » Silverlight 3 http://brushpen.net learn.create.communicate Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:07:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Microsoft MIX09 Web Design and Development Conference http://brushpen.net/2009/03/microsoft-mix09-web-design-and-development-conference/ http://brushpen.net/2009/03/microsoft-mix09-web-design-and-development-conference/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:49:51 +0000 Heath Higgins http://brushpen.net/?p=37 It’s well after 2:30am, and, despite many good reasons, I’m finding myself too preoccupied with MIX09 to sleep.  The Day One keynote was apparently enough to send me buzzing around like a sugar-high ferret (multi-tab browsing as fast as my laptop and Internet connection can handle) to download Visual Studio 2008 SP1, the Silverlight 3 Beta, and Blend 3.  Some of the key points that Scott Guthre and others hit on with Silverlight 3 include:

  • Adaptive streaming:  automatically cycled bit-rates on streaming content to provide a responsive user experience and the best quality possible given available bandwidth
  • New codec support for  H.264, AAC, MPEG-4, and custom codecs for your own bitstreams (see Expression Encoder)
  • Improved logging for media analytics
  • Support for IIS Media Services, an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform (free download)
  • GPU hardware acceleration and HD quality media on the web
  • GPU support for scaling and stretching video
  • Perspective 3D
  • Bitmap/Pixel APIs
  • Pixel shader effects
  • Deep Zoom improvements, including hardware acceleration
  • Deep linking, navigation and SEO
  • Multitouch support
  • 100+ new Controls
  • Library caching support: referenced libraries and assemblies can be downloaded and cached on system, speeding up repeat visits and visits to other sites the use the libraries
  • Data binding improvements
  • Validation error templates
  • Server data push on databound fields
  • Multi-tier REST support
  • New DataForm control
  • Eclipse Support on Mac
  • Out of browser, standalone application support

And in Expression Blend 3:

  • SketchFlow: prototype design tool that handles behaviors and styles with very little code; build flow within application with high-level diagramming; demo to stakeholders using freely redistributable SketchFlow Player; generates document outlines
  • Supports import from Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Integrated revision control support

Microsoft fanboy?  So it would seem.  Evangelist in training?  Definitely.  Sleep-deprived?  Very much so.  Perhaps more on these topics after a couple software installations and a few REM cycles.

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