History of Silverlight Versions and its Features - CRB Tech

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Silverlight is a browser plug-in that promotes a
collaborative development environment of rich
online media contents that enable developers and
designers alike to integrate multimedia and
graphics into web pages within the context of the
managed environment. Top Silverlight
features IIS Smooth Streaming It enables you
to deliver high definition streams that play very
smoothly on any device running Silverlight. Pivot
viewer It helps in easier interaction with
massive database on the web in ways that are
powerful, fun and informative. Sketch flow It
revolutionizes the speed and accuracy with which
you can demonstrate a vision for an application.
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Top Silverlight features Deep zoom It is the
fastest and smoothest zooming technology on the
Web. Pixel shader This software based effects
include blur and drop shadow that can be applied
to any graphical content for animation. New
controls Silverlight is packed with over 60
high-quality and customizable esternal controls
such as charting and media. Media format
extensibility With the new Raw AV pipeline, it
can easily support a wide variety of third-party
codes. Perspective 3D graphics With this the
users can rotate or scale live content in space
without writing any additional code.

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• Skinning and styling
• It helps to create graphics and then use them to
  customize controls, such as the look of a
  scrollbar.
• Silverlight versions
• Silverlight 1.0
• This release was originally called WPF/E, an
  acronym for Windows Presentation Foundation/
  Everywhere.
• Key features
• Has core presentation framework, which is
  responsible for UI, interactivity and user input.
• Basic UI controls, media playback , graphics and
  animation and DOM integration
• The main drawback of this release is no support
  for managed code.
• Applications are written either in XAML or in a
  mix of XAML and JavaScript with DOM (Document
  Object Model) to manipulate the user interface.

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• Silverlight 1.0
• It was released in March 2008.
• Key features
• Rich base class library This is a compatible
  subset of the full .NET Framework. It supports
  Reflection, Collections,Regular Expressions,
  String Handling, Data Access, LINQ etc
• Powerful built-in controls
• Extensible control base classes
• Common controls Textbox, Checkbox, Slider,
  RadioButton, TabControl, ScrollViewer,
  ProgressBar, Calendar etc
• Layout controls Grid, StackPanel etc
• Data controls DataGrid, etc
• Advanced skinning and template support help to
  easily customize the look and feel of an
  application.
• Programming Languages Visual Basic, JavaScript,
  C, IronPython and IronRuby.
• Cross-platform and cross-browser support This
  supports for Mac, Windows, and Linux in
  Safari,Firefox, and Windows Internet Explorer.

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• Security Silverlight CoreCLR uses an
  attribute-based security model, as opposite to
  the Code Access Security model of the desktop
  version of .NET Framework.
• Silverlight 3
• This was released in July 9, 2009, mainly
  providing improvements in graphics capabilities,
  media management, application development areas ,
  and integration in the designers Expression
  Blend 3 tools.
• Key features
• Support for 3D graphics
• Animation
• Pixel shaders
• Support theme application
• Enhance control-skinning
• Improve text rendering
• Bitmap APIs
• Support for new media formats
• IIS Media Services

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• Silverlight DRM for media streaming
• Empowers developers to develop data and
  media-rich interactive RIAs
• Silverlight 3 SDK
• New networking APIs
• New FormsXAML controls
• New DataManipulationXAML controls
• New ContentXAML controls
• Improvements of other user interface framework
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Silverlight 4.0
• This was released on November 18, 2009.
• Key features
• Supports GPU accelerated video decoding
• Variable speed playback of media content with
  automatic audio pitch correction
• Built-in RC support

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• Supports faster application start-up
• Automated UI testing that supports for
  applications with Visual Studio 2010
• Developers can now debug data-binding expressions
• WCF RIA Services improvements that include
  complex type support and better MVVM support.
• Learn Silverlight through our silverlight
  tutorials, which would be of much help for you.

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