WUX206 – What’s New in Silverlight 3 – By Jesse Liberty!

1st Demo – Real Estate on the internet is at a premium.  One way animation can get out of the box of not being a toy.  Flip transform to flip a page.  Projection transform – allows you rotate across the x,y,and z axis. 

Demos http://silverlight.net

Every Demo on his blog:

http://silverlight.net.blogs/jesseliberty

Every Demo Fully Demonstrated in a video

http://silverlight.net/learn

The Slider and the TextBlock – SL2 – Slider event changed.  - Sl3 – Bind the textbox to the slider element.  Small thing, but could have a big impact on scalability.  Now SL apps can run on YouTube, the iPhone, Flash and Quicktime. 

Easing – Made Easier.  Easing is a change in acceleration. 

Pixwls and Bitmaps – Pixel Shading (per pixel!).  Written in HLSL.  Effects: Drop Shadow and Blur

 

Demo – Taking a snapshot of a demo and capture it into a bitmap. 

Local Messaging – Communicates From One Plug-In to Another.  Across Pages, Across Browsers, Shared Memory, Messages are String-based.  Great for Mixed HTML and Silverlight content.

UI Framework Improvements – Based on Styles, Merged Resource Dictionaries, Multi-select ListBox, ClearType, ImageImprovements, Save File dialog – developer has no control on where the file goes.  Can base new styles on old styles.  Not fully cascading style sheets. 

Validation – Validate input against Data Object.  Mechanism is via Binding & VSM.  NotifyOnValidationErrors = true.  ValidateOnExceptions = true.  Now there is visual state as the standard part of the controls for handling validation errors.