{"id":1967,"date":"2009-11-18T20:04:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1967-silverlight-4-ticks-all-the-boxes-questions-remain.html"},"modified":"2009-11-18T20:04:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:04:32","slug":"silverlight-4-ticks-all-the-boxes-questions-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1967-silverlight-4-ticks-all-the-boxes-questions-remain.html","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight 4 ticks all the boxes, questions remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced Silverlight 4 here at PDC in Los Angeles. The gist of it I was expecting \u2013 device support, an option for fuller system access out of the browser \u2013 but the extent of the new features is remarkable. Here\u2019s a few highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved Just-in-time compilation gives 30% faster start-up, up to 100% performance increase<\/li>\n<li>COM automation support on Windows when out of browser with full trust<\/li>\n<li>Access to local file system, cross-site Internet access, custom window chrome when in full trust out of browser<\/li>\n<li>Notification pop-up support even when sandboxed<\/li>\n<li>Drag and drop target even when sandboxed<\/li>\n<li>HTML control (only works out of browser), supports plug-ins<\/li>\n<li>Rich text control with right-to-left text support<\/li>\n<li>Printing support<\/li>\n<li>Clipboard, right-click and mouse wheel support<\/li>\n<li>Web cam and microphone support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course there are a few unanswered questions, such as what level of HTML support is available, or how Microsoft is protecting users from malicious Silverlight applets; I\u2019ll be exploring these later today.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear though that Microsoft wants to compete fully with Adobe AIR, and that its energetic Silverlight development is continuing at full pace.<\/p>\n<p>The beta is <a href=\"http:\/\/silverlight.net\/getstarted\/silverlight-4-beta\/\">available now<\/a>; full release is promised for the first half of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>So where is Microsoft going with this? Why would anyone develop for WPF and Windows, if good enough features, cross-platform, and zero install is available through Silverlight?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting times for .NET developers.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:080fcd47-b28b-4827-87f8-3b9300ab2a91\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/silverlight\" rel=\"tag\">silverlight<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/.net\" rel=\"tag\">.net<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/pdc09\" rel=\"tag\">pdc09<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced Silverlight 4 here at PDC in Los Angeles. The gist of it I was expecting \u2013 device support, an option for fuller system access out of the browser \u2013 but the extent of the new features is remarkable. Here\u2019s a few highlights: Improved Just-in-time compilation gives 30% faster start-up, up to 100% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1967-silverlight-4-ticks-all-the-boxes-questions-remain.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silverlight 4 ticks all the boxes, questions remain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}