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New Features for Application Developers
· Great printing support enabling hardcopy reports and documents and also a virtual print view, independent of screen content.
· A full set of forms controls with over 60 customizable. The component is able to be styled. New controls include RichTextbox with hyperlinks, images and editing. Enhancing the controls of DataGrid with sortable/resizeable columns and copy/paste rows.
· Localization enhancements with Bi-Directional text, Right-to-Left support and there are complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew and 31 new languages including Vietnamese.
· The .NET Common Runtime (CLR) now enables the same compiled code to be run on the desktop and Silverlight without any change.
· Exclusive tooling support for Silverlight, new in Visual Studio 2010. Including a total editable design surface, drag & drop data-binding, automatically bound controls, integration with Expression Blend styling resources, Silverlight project support and full IntelliSense.
Developer tools
· It’s fully editable with its design surface for drawing out controls and layouts.
· It’s loaded with property grid and new editors for values
· The Drag and drop support for databinding and automatically creating bound controls such as listbox, datagrid and new datasources.
· Built in project support for Silverlight applications
· Editor with full intellisense for XAML and C# and VB languages.
Empowering richer, more interactive experiences
Silverlight is already in use as a comprehensive platform for building rich experiences both for application and pure media scenarios including HD quality, interactive video through Smooth Streaming. Silverlight 4 has additional capabilities to enable richer creation, and high-performance interactive experiences.
· Fluid interface enhancements advance application usability through animation effects.
· Webcam and microphone to allow capture of audio and video on the client.
· Bring data into your application by copy and paste or drag and drop.
· Long lists can now be scrolled easily by using the mouse wheel.
· Support for Google’s Chrome browser.
· Silverlight 4 applications start quicker and run 200% faster than the old Silverlight 3 application.
· Content protection for H.264 media through Silverlight DRM powered by PlayReady.
References: Microsoft Silverlight,Microsoft cooperation,[online],
retrieved 20-10-10.
