Silverlight 5; going to be HOT HOT HOT
Silverlight Firestarter took place yesterday (last night) in Seattle. You can still watch online on demand, but here’s the highlights;
The family is growing: Big daddy WPF, Slinky Silverlight and HTML5 Jnr are now all part of the future vision.
Great media enhancements:
- Adding hardware support so you can watch a 1080p stream live and OD on your Netbook, without it grinding to a halt
- New thing called Trickplay that adjusts variable speed for video and audio playback so you don’t get the chipmunk voice when you speed up
- Adding new power management features
- Remote control support – whoohoo!
- On the server side the new IIS Media Services 4 (released end Oct) now allows you to stream the same live H.264 for Silverlight players (PC, Mac, Linux, Nokia S60 phones, Windows Phone 7 and set-up-boxes) PLUS with a checkbox tick you can ad real time delivery to iPhone and iPad! More on Chris Knowlton’s blog here (roughly 14:22 in they keynote)
- And keeping with hot topics: adding Azure support for IIS Media Services
And on the app side: some serious enhancements around Data Binding;
- Data Binding Debugging
- Markup Extensions for MVVM
- Implicit Data Templates
- Ancestor RelativeSource Binding
- Binding in Style Setters
- DataContextChanged Event
WCF & RIA Services;
- WS-Trust Support
- Low-latency Networking
- MVVM friendly DataSource
- End-to-end Support for Complex Types
- Windows Azure Support
Test & Perf Tools
- Automated UI Testing
- Improved Profiling Support ; Memory, CPU & Thread contention
All of this and more, Silverlight 5 Beta will launch Spring 2011 (SOON!)