Silverlight 4 – Review of all the Cool New Features

Check-out this comprehensive blog post by Tim Heuer – who outlines all the cool new SL4 features announced at the PDC in November - with links to videos and code samples to help you get started with each new capability.  Here is a link to his complete blog post: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx

Here is a list of all the new features with the blog links:

Tooling Printing API Right-click event handling Webcam/microphone access Mouse wheel support RichTextArea Control ICommand support Clipboard API HTML Hosting with WebBrowser Elevated trust applications Local file access COM interop Notification (“toast”) API Network authentication Cross-domain Networking changes Keyboard access in full screen mode Text trimming

ViewBox Right-to-left, BiDi and complex script Offline DRM H.264 protected content Silverlight as a drop target Data binding IDataErrorInfo and Async Validation DependencyObject Binding StringFormat, TargetNullValue, FallbackValue Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) DataGrid enhancements Fluid UI support in items controls Implicit theming Google Chrome support

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