Silverlight 3 Hosting – New Silverlight Features
What’s New in Microsoft Silverlight 3?
1 – DataPager – The DataPager serves as a simple control to provide next/previous and numeric paging capabilities for data sets which implement the IPagedViewCollection interface. When combined with .NET RIA Services (which ObjectDataSource automatically implements this collection), DataPager provides a quick and efficient mechanism for paging data without having to bring entire data sets to the client and page though them there.
2 – Navigation Framework – A new navigation framework is introduced and implements two controls: Frame and Page. Using this framework you can partition your views into separate XAML files and navigate to each view as simple as you would previously a web page. This framework also integrates with the browser’s history journal to provide back/forward capabilities.
By enabling this framework you can implement deep linking support in your Silverlight application easily. This will help also with enabling certain SEO enhancements for your Silverlight application. Watch the video to see how you can implement this as well as implement custom routing for friendly URIs without exposing your XAML location definitions.
3 – New Toolkit Controls – Several new controls were also introduced as a part of the Silverlight Toolkit. Click on the links of those enabled here to view a video tutorial of the control.
* DomainUpDown
* TimePicker
* Accordion
* ChildWindow (modal-type dialog scenarios)
* Charting improvements
4 – Silverlight Media – Media has been a strong point in Silverlight since day 1, but we’ve added some features based on customer feedback including support for new media types like H.264 and AAC encoding. Additionally we’ve added support for RAW audio/video pipeline support, which will enable developers to provide audio/video decoding outside the runtime and render in Silverlight – opening up some new areas for wide support for 3rd party codecs.
5 – Animation Easing effects are now a part of Silverlight providing you with a set of easing animations such as bounce, elastic effects, etc. These interpolators will help with smoother animation transitions and other visual effects you are trying to accomplish.
6 – Empowering Richer Experiences – Silverlight 3 contains new 3D graphics, animation features, hardware accelerated effects and text improvements that enable designers and developers to create next generation Web visuals – Improving Rich Internet Application Productivity
7 – Advanced Accessibility Features – Silverlight 3 is the first browser plug-in to provide access to all system colors, allowing partially-sighted people to make changes such as high contrast color schemes for ease of readability by using familiar operating system controls.
Any many more new features upgrades in Silverlight 3. All of these features are now supported in IWebHosting.com.my Windows hosting plan.
