Silverlight 5.0.60401 Beta

Silverlight 5.0.60401 Beta

Publisher's description

Microsoft? Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications.

Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.

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Technical

File Size:

8.65M

License:

Freeware

Released:

Apr 14, 2011

OS Support:

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64

Plugins:

None

Publisher:

Microsoft Corporation

Homepage:

http://silverlight.net/

MD5 Checksum:

9e5ab1b36629d90daad69fc4c5137c2d

Changelog

# Improved media support and rich UI capabilities: * Hardware Decode and presentation of H.264 improve performance for lower-power devices to render high-definition video using GPU support. * TrickPlay allows video to be played at different speeds and supports fast-forward and rewind. At up to twice the speed, audio pitch correction allows users to watch videos while preserving a normal audio pitch. * Improved power awareness prevents the screen saver from being shown while watching video and allows the computer to sleep when video is not active. * Remote-control support allows users to control media playback. * Digital rights management advancements allow seamless switching between DRM media sources. # Building next-generation business applications: * Text improvements make it possible to build rich magazine-style text layouts: - Multicolumn text and linked text container allow text to flow around other elements. - Tracking/leading set precisely how far apart each character is for full creative control. - Text clarity is improved with Pixel Snapping. - Text layout performance is significantly improved. - OpenType support has been enhanced. * Applications can now work the way users expect with added support for double-click and Combobox type ahead. * Model View ViewModel (MVVM) and Databinding enhancements allow more work to be done more easily via XAML: - Debugging support now allows breakpoints to be set on a binding, so you can step through binding failures. - Implicit DataTemplates allow templates to be created across an application to support a particular type by default. - Ancestor RelativeSource allows, for example, a DataTemplate to bind to a property on the control that contains it. - Binding in style setters allows bindings to be used within styles to reference other properties. - The DataContextChanged event is being introduced. Markup extensions allow code to be run at XAML parse time for both properties and event handlers, enabling cutting-edge MVVM support. # Networking and Windows Communication Foundation enhancements: * Reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking. # Performance improvements include: * Reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking. * XAML parser improvements that speed up startup and runtime performance. * Support for 64-bit operating systems. # Graphics improvements: * Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerated 3-D application programming interface (API) provides rich graphics on the Web for building advanced data visualizations and rich user experience (UI). * Immediate mode graphics API allows direct rendering to the GPU. * Hardware acceleration is enabled in windowless mode with Internet Explorer 9. # Extends features of the ‘Trusted Application’ model to the browser for the first time. These features, when enabled via a group policy registry key and an application certificate, mean users won’t need to leave the browser to perform complex tasks: * Host HTML content as a Web browser control within the Silverlight application. HTML pages, such as help content or e-mail, can be integrated within the application. * Read and write files to the user’s My Documents folder, making it easier to find media files or create local copies of reports. * Launch Microsoft Office and other desktop programs. Users can open Microsoft Outlook and create an e-mail message, or send a report to Word utilizing the power of Office. * Access devices and other system capabilities by calling into application COM components. Users can access a USB security card reader or a bar-code scanner. * Enjoy full keyboard support in full screen, which enables richer kiosk and media viewing applications. * Call existing unmanaged code directly from within Silverlight with PInvoke. # Tools improvements include: * Microsoft Visual Studio profiling support including CPU, memory, thread contention. * Visual Studio Team Test support.