Naturally, the big news today is the release of Silverlight 4 beta at today’s PDC.
You can download it right now. Go ahead, start the download now. I’ll wait.
Shawn Wildermuth has a nice high level wrap up post:
- Printing Support
- Implicit Styling
- WebCam/Microphone Support
- RichTextArea Control
- Right-Mouse Button Events
- Drag-n-Drop/Clipboard Access
- UDP/Multicast Support in Networking
- Elevated Trust
- WebBrowser Control
- Controlling the Window
- Notification Windows (e.g. Outlook popup's)
- COM Integration
- Binding to DependencyObjects (used to be FrameworkElement)
- StringFormat Markup Extension
- TargetNullValue Markup Extension
- FallbackValue Markup Extension
- Support for IDataErrorInfo and new INotifyDataErrorInfo for reporting validation errors.
- Binding to String Indexers
- GroupDescription support on CollectionViewSource for simplified grouping.
If you want to dive deeper into any of the new features, check out Tim Heuer’s post.
It’s a must-read.