Great New Silverlight 4.0 Resources
There are some great new Silverlight 4.0 resources available. Below are some of the best.
John Papa has put together an awesome “What’s new in Silverlight 4” whitepaper".
Here is a list of what is new in Silverlight 4:
* Enabling Business Application Development
o Printing
o Rich Text Area Control
o Rich Text Area with FlowDirection of RightToLeft
o Text Input
o WCF RIA Services
o Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
o Viewbox Control
o Auto-Sizing Columns and Copy from DataGrid
o Navigation Page Loading Extensibility
o Command Property on ButtonBase and Hyperlink
o SelectedValue and SelectedValuePath on the Selector
o Support for Referer Header
o UDP Multicast Client Support
o Single Source Multicast (one-to-many)
o Authentication Support with ClientHttpWebRequest
o IDataErrorInfo
o INotifyDataErrorInfo
o Grouping on CollectionViewSource
o Editable CollectionView IEditableCollectionView
o Binding to String Indexers
o StringFormat, TargetNullValue, FallbackValue
o Databinding Support for Dependency Objects
o ObservableCollection<T> Constructor Accepts IList and IEnumerable
* Empowering Richer Experiences
o Fluid UI States for ItemsControl
o Word Based Text Trimming (trailing ellipses)
o Implicit Styles
o MouseWheel Support
o Right Mouse Click
o Programmatic Clipboard Access
o Silverlight as a Drop Target
o Webcam and Microphone Support
o CompositeTransform
o Support for all PNG Formats
o Offline Digital Rights Management
o MP4 Playback Protected DRM
o WMS Multicast
o Output Protection
* Moving Beyond the Browser – Sandboxed Applications
o Out-of-Browser Windowing Updates
o WebBrowser Control
o HtmlBrush
o Notifications (Toast)
* Moving Beyond the Browser – Trusted Applications
o Native Integration
o File System Access
o Cross-Domain Networking Access
o Full File Path on Open and Save Dialogs
o Full Keyboard in Full Screen Mode
Get from his blog here.
Silverlight 4 Training Course
Overview from Channel 9
The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes hands-on-labs, a video and a whitepaper designed to help you learn about the new features in Silverlight 4 focusing on three major areas: Enabling Business Application Development, Empowering Richer Experiences and Moving Beyond the Browser. Some of the new highly anticipated features include Printing, WebCam and Microphone support, custom right-click, rich text, HTML support and access to local files with trusted applications.
Check it out here
PDC 09 Videos
There are a ton of great videos on Silverlight and WPF 4.0.
Check them out here.
Resources from silverlight.net
Videos and Sample Code
This is a series of videos covering the top Silverlight 4 Beta features in more detail with available source sample code in C# and Visual Basic.
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
Visual Web Developer Express 2010 Beta 2
Silverlight 4 Beta Tools for Visual Studio 2010 This will install the developer runtime of Silverlight 4 Beta, the Visual Studio project support and the Silverlight 4 SDK.
Microsoft Expression Blend for .NET 4 Preview This is a preview version of Expression Blend that will enable authoring of Silverlight 4 Beta applications.
Silverlight Toolkit The toolkit has been updated to provide support for Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 beta development. The Toolkit provides numerous controls for your application and source code is also included for these controls using an Open Source license.
WCF RIA Services Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.
Online Silverlight 4 Beta Documentation
Offline CHM help Silverlight 4 Beta Documentation file download
Tim Heuer also has a great post here: Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features
John Papa has put together an awesome “What’s new in Silverlight 4” whitepaper".
Here is a list of what is new in Silverlight 4:
* Enabling Business Application Development
o Printing
o Rich Text Area Control
o Rich Text Area with FlowDirection of RightToLeft
o Text Input
o WCF RIA Services
o Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
o Viewbox Control
o Auto-Sizing Columns and Copy from DataGrid
o Navigation Page Loading Extensibility
o Command Property on ButtonBase and Hyperlink
o SelectedValue and SelectedValuePath on the Selector
o Support for Referer Header
o UDP Multicast Client Support
o Single Source Multicast (one-to-many)
o Authentication Support with ClientHttpWebRequest
o IDataErrorInfo
o INotifyDataErrorInfo
o Grouping on CollectionViewSource
o Editable CollectionView IEditableCollectionView
o Binding to String Indexers
o StringFormat, TargetNullValue, FallbackValue
o Databinding Support for Dependency Objects
o ObservableCollection<T> Constructor Accepts IList and IEnumerable
* Empowering Richer Experiences
o Fluid UI States for ItemsControl
o Word Based Text Trimming (trailing ellipses)
o Implicit Styles
o MouseWheel Support
o Right Mouse Click
o Programmatic Clipboard Access
o Silverlight as a Drop Target
o Webcam and Microphone Support
o CompositeTransform
o Support for all PNG Formats
o Offline Digital Rights Management
o MP4 Playback Protected DRM
o WMS Multicast
o Output Protection
* Moving Beyond the Browser – Sandboxed Applications
o Out-of-Browser Windowing Updates
o WebBrowser Control
o HtmlBrush
o Notifications (Toast)
* Moving Beyond the Browser – Trusted Applications
o Native Integration
o File System Access
o Cross-Domain Networking Access
o Full File Path on Open and Save Dialogs
o Full Keyboard in Full Screen Mode
Get from his blog here.
Silverlight 4 Training Course
Overview from Channel 9
The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes hands-on-labs, a video and a whitepaper designed to help you learn about the new features in Silverlight 4 focusing on three major areas: Enabling Business Application Development, Empowering Richer Experiences and Moving Beyond the Browser. Some of the new highly anticipated features include Printing, WebCam and Microphone support, custom right-click, rich text, HTML support and access to local files with trusted applications.
Check it out here
PDC 09 Videos
There are a ton of great videos on Silverlight and WPF 4.0.
Check them out here.
Resources from silverlight.net
Videos and Sample Code
This is a series of videos covering the top Silverlight 4 Beta features in more detail with available source sample code in C# and Visual Basic.
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
Visual Web Developer Express 2010 Beta 2
Silverlight 4 Beta Tools for Visual Studio 2010 This will install the developer runtime of Silverlight 4 Beta, the Visual Studio project support and the Silverlight 4 SDK.
Microsoft Expression Blend for .NET 4 Preview This is a preview version of Expression Blend that will enable authoring of Silverlight 4 Beta applications.
Silverlight Toolkit The toolkit has been updated to provide support for Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 beta development. The Toolkit provides numerous controls for your application and source code is also included for these controls using an Open Source license.
WCF RIA Services Microsoft WCF RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.
Online Silverlight 4 Beta Documentation
Offline CHM help Silverlight 4 Beta Documentation file download
Tim Heuer also has a great post here: Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features
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