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Silverlight 5 RC has released!

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The SL5 RC has released and you can now download the tools here.

This is an exciting release and brings many new features to Silverlight. Following are just a few of the new features. You can check out more details in the What's New for Silverlight 5 topic on MSDN.

  • PivotViewer control, which adds support for dynamic client-based collections, XAML-based visuals, and
    customizability.
  • Data binding improvements such as a DataContextChanged event and PropertyChanged added to the UpdateSourceTrigger enumeration
  • 3D: Improvements to the 3D support added in SL5 beta. This includes XNA built-in effects, surface composition settings for depth and stencil buffers and mult-sample anti-aliasing
  • File access: OpenFileDialog offers a DefaultDirectory property and SaveFileDialog offers a DefaultFileName property
  • Printing: SL5 now supports vector printing in addition to the bitmap printing offered in SL4.
  • Remote control event support added with the MediaCommand event on UIElement.
  • Application restricted media: Enables content providers to ensure DRM'd content is only consumed by SL applications they authorize. More about this feature in an upcoming blog post.
  • Support for OpenType and pixel-snapped text.

The docs are updated with Silverlight 5 RC content, and you can get the chm here.

 --Cheryl

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 01, 2011
    Are the font rendering improvements in the RC ?

  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2011
    Yes, there is support for OpenType and pixel-snapped text. Added to the list above. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2011
    Hi Cheryl, Thanks for the reply, is there docs around the pixel-snapped text ?

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2011
    @Aaron, Currently there is no conceptual coverage for this, but to turn on pixel-snapped text, you set the TextOptions.TextFormattingMode (msdn.microsoft.com/.../system.windows.media.textoptions.textformattingmode%28VS.96%29.aspx) attached property for the page to TextFormattingMode.Display Here's an XAML example: <Page TextOptions.TextFormattingMode=”Display”>

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2011
    How do I add actions (commands) in this new version of PivotViewer?

  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2011
    Hello, I have installed the Silverlight 5 RC Toolkit, sdk but when the Silverlight 3d App and Silverlight 3d Library templates are missing. I have vs2010 sp1 intalled, and followed all the necessary steps displayed on microsoft sites, but still can't find those templates. thank you. looking forward to any response.