mike taulty devdays 2010 silverlight 4 - what's new part 1

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Silverlight 4 – What’s New? ( part 1 )

Mike Taulty, Microsoft UK mtaulty@microsoft.com mtaulty.com @mtaulty

Silverlight 4 is on its way

versions are back-compat, no side-by-side Silverlight 4 is where you’d start today

V1

Sept 2007

V2

Oct 2008

V3

July 2009

V4

release candidate

launches at DevConnections April 12-14

Silverlight 4 is cross-browser, cross-platform

private mode browsing supported

Silverlight 4 is a major release

MVVM

Trusted Applications Drag/Drop

StringFormat

UDP, WMS Multicast

WCF RIA

Services Viewbox

Extended Languages

Printing

INotifyDataErrorInfo

Commanding Indic

Languages

BiDi & RTL

MEF

RichTextBox

Right Click

Mouse Wheel

IDataErrorInfo

Datagrid

Enhancements

GPU Acceleration

MP4 DRM

Microphone

Webcam

Clipboard Access

Toast Notifications

HTML

Private Mode Browsing

Google Chrome

COM Automation

Local File System

Composite Transform

Offline DRM Protected Path Output

XAP Signing

Silent Install

Cross-Domain Networking

Custom Window Chrome

Sockets Security

Full Keyboard Full Screen

XPath for XML

Fluid UI Text Trimming

Full PNG Support

Windowing controls Window Close Event

Networking

this is a talk in 2 parts – don’t miss the 2nd part

• tooling, binding, validation, networking, navigation

• controls, desktop integration , frameworks

• 16:30 today

Visual Studio 2010

Expression Blend 4

binding & validation

networking

navigation

control enhancements

desktop integration

• all applications

• out of browser applications

• trusted applications

frameworks

• WCF RIA Services

• Managed Extensibility Framework

Visual Studio 2010

Expression Blend 4

binding & validation

networking

navigation

Visual Studio 2010

Expression Blend 4

binding & validation

networking

navigation

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demo Visual Studio 2010

multitargeting

drag/drop designer

properties window

• resources, binding, brushes, etc.

data sources window

document outline window

profiler support

assembly sharing

languages – C# 4 and VB 10

Visual Studio 2010

Expression Blend 4

binding & validation

networking

navigation

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demo Expression Blend 4

MVVM support

design time resources & CLR data

ListBoxItem layout states

PathListBox

effects – additional & transitions

behaviors – more & conditional

data store

Sketchflow enhancements

Photoshop import enhancements

Visual Studio 2010

Expression Blend 4

binding & validation

networking

navigation

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demo Binding & Validation

Validation

• IDataErrorInfo

• INotifyDataErrorInfo

Binding

• String Indexers

• FallbackValue

• TargetNullValue

• StringFormat

• DependencyObject

Visual Studio 2010

Expression Blend 4

binding & validation

networking

navigation

networking

• Client networking stack for HTTP – integrated authentication (automatic/pass-thru) – caching, upload progress, referer header, connections

• Sockets – TCP security policy – opt to download via HTTP – UDP multicasting to [any/single] source groups

• WCF TCP channel • WCF Data Services ( odata client, ‘Astoria’ )

– support for arbitrary projections of data – automatic client-side tracking – support for data-paging and result-set counts – support for cross-domain

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demo Networking

HTTP Client Stack

• integrated authentication

WCF Data Services

• bindable/trackable client side

• arbitrary projections

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“Silverlight 4 Networking Guided Tour”

session Mike Taulty, Microsoft

10:50, Tomorrow

Visual Studio 2010

Expression Blend 4

binding & validation

networking

navigation

Browser booksite/default.aspx#/authors.xaml?name=steinbeck

navigation

Silverlight already supports navigation & deep linking

Silverlight

Frame Control /authors.xaml?name=steinbeck

Page

authors.xaml

• NavigatedTo event • NavigationContext

• access to query string

pluggable navigation

Silverlight 4 makes it pluggable

navigate: http://booksite/default.aspx#/authors/steinbeck navigate: /authors/steinbeck

Frame

UriMapper

ContentLoader

Asynchronously turns the URI into a Page or UserControl

Uri MappedUri

/authors/{author} /views/authors.xaml?surname={author}

/{pageName} /views/{pagename.xaml}

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demo pluggable navigation

control enhancements

desktop integration

• all applications

• out of browser applications

• trusted applications

frameworks

• WCF RIA Services

• Managed Extensibility Framework

thank you for coming – please provide feedback

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Silverlight 4 – What’s New ( part 1 )

Mike Taulty, Microsoft UK mtaulty@microsoft.com mtaulty.com @mtaulty