I saw this on Twitter and it was too good not to share.
Here are the blog posts Rick was referring to.
They each highlight the new features of Silverlight and all are written by fellow AISer Pete Brown.
Silverlight 3 – Perspective 3d Transforms – PlaneProjection
One of the most commonly requested features for Silverlight is some sort of 3d support. Within that, what many folks have expressed real interest in is the ability to do a perspective / non-affine transform of objects in space. Well, the Silverlight team Read More... Silverlight 3 – The Bitmap API / WriteableBitmap
Silverlight 3 introduces the new Bitmap API useful for accomplishing three primary goals: Creation of a bitmap completely from scratch, pixel-by-pixel Client-side manipulation of an image loaded from your server or the local machine Rendering of a portion Read More... Silverlight 3 – BasedOn Styles
Silverlight 3 now includes Based-on styles for cascading/inheriting styles. You’ll find this extremely useful when you need to create, say, several different buttons that share the same control template and several style properties, but change a Read More... Silverlight 3 – Taking Silverlight Out of the Browser
One of the long-anticipated new features of Silverlight is the ability to take applications out of browser, online or offline. in Silverlight 3, it couldn’t be easier. Simply crack open the AppManifest.xml and uncomment the markup that allows for Read More... Silverlight 3 – UI Element to Element Binding
Silverlight 3 now allows UI elements to bind to each other’s properties. This is something WPF folks are pretty used to, but is new to the Silverlight world. Element Binding is very simple to use. As of this writing, there are some restrictions Read More... Silverlight 3 – Creating Video from Raw Bits using a MediaStreamSource
There are a number of ways to get pixels on the screen in Silverlight 3. One you may not have considered, especially with the new Bitmap API being an otherwise obvious choice, is the newly enhanced MediaStreamSource API The MediaStreamSource API was available Read More... Silverlight 3 – Drop Shadows and Glows with Pixel Shaders
Among the many enhancements in Silverlight 3 is the addition of Pixel Shaders. One of the shaders that is likely to be used most is the simple drop shadow. Like all Silverlight Pixel Shaders, the drop shadow has some little things you need to be aware Read More... Announcing Silverlight 3! SL3 Post Index
For those of you watching the agenda for MIX09, the announcement of Silverlight 3 probably didn’t come as a huge surprise. However, I bet hardly anyone expected the enormous number of new features that have been announced for Silverlight 3. Here Read More...