Jump to content

Silverlight 5 now available to download


nsane.forums

Recommended Posts

Microsoft delivered the final version of its Silverlight 5 product this week.

Silverlight 5 includes new capabilities such as Hardware Video Decode, for enhanced video quality and performance, and Trickplay which provides variable-rate video playback with audio pitch correction. Silverlight 5 also offers a new Microsoft XNA-based interface for delivering 3-D visualizations within applications, along with a host of new features for developers. Silverlight 5 is likely to be the final version of Silverlight. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley notes that the company plans to support Silverlight 5 until 2021.

Silverlight 5 also extends the Trusted Application model to the browser. System administrators can enable the features via group policy and they allow greater control over multiple window support, trust support in browser and HTML hosting within Silverlight. Silverlight 5 also includes the following developer related enhancements:

  • XAML Debugging with breakpoints for binding debugging
  • Implicit data templates for easy UI reuse
  • Double (and multi) click support
  • GPU-accelerated XNA-compatible 3D and immediate-mode 2D API
  • Low-latency sound effects and WAV support
  • Real operating system windows and multi-display support
  • Significant performance improvements, fixes and much more

More information on Silverlight 5 and a 7MB download at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

view.gif View: Original Article

Link to comment
Share on other sites


  • Replies 2
  • Views 1.3k
  • Created
  • Last Reply
  • Administrator

Microsoft has released version 5 of its Silverlight browser plugin and runtime environment. Among other new features, the 7-12MB download gives Silverlight developers a 3D API based on Direct3D, PostScript printing, hardware-accelerated H.264 video, and the ability to create "trusted" in-browser applications that can escape Silverlight's usual sandbox—something that previously required an out-of-browser application.

The new version is available for Windows, where it supports Internet Explorer 7 or higher, Firefox 3.6 or higher, and Chrome 12 or higher, and Mac OS X, where it supports Firefox 3.6 or higher and Safari 4 or higher. For the first time, the plugin also has a 64-bit Windows version, allowing Silverlight to run in 64-bit Internet Explorer.

view.gif View: Original Article

Link to comment
Share on other sites


Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...