Silverlight 3 Briefing Deck
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Silverlight 3 introduces new capabilities for higher quality video and audio, richer user experiences through 3D graphics and effects, improved developer productivity via new controls and data services, and the ability to run applications outside the browser on desktop and mobile devices. Expression Blend 3, the visual design tool, has been enhanced to take full advantage of Silverlight 3's features and enables breakthrough design through prototyping, visual workflows and accessible interactivity without coding.
Silverlight 3 Briefing Deck
- 1. MIX 2009 Silverlight 3 Briefing Clint Edmonson Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation
- 2. Silverlight Momentum By the Numbers 18 months since launch
- 3. Silverlight Momentum By the Numbers 18 months 300m+ since launch downloads
- 4. Silverlight Momentum By the Numbers 400,000 18 months 300m+ + since launch downloads Developers & Designers Source: Microsoft Developer Tracker 2008 Report
- 5. Silverlight Momentum By the Numbers 400,000 200+ 18 months 300m+ + partners in since launch downloads Developers & Designers 30 countries
- 6. Silverlight Momentum By the Numbers 400,000 200+ 200+ 18 months 300m+ + partners in Microsoft since launch downloads Developers & Products & Designers 30 countries Websites
- 7. Silverlight Momentum By the Numbers 400,000 200+ 200+ Thousands 18 months 300m+ + partners in Microsoft of Apps since launch downloads Developers & Products & across the Designers 30 countries Websites Globe www.silverlight.net/showcase
- 9. Silverlight 3 Themes Support for Higher Quality Video & Audio Empowering Rich Experiences Improving RIA Productivity Out of Browser Capabilities Design Tooling
- 10. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Media Support for Higher Quality Video and Audio Smooth Streaming More Format Choices Media Graphics Full Screen HD Playback Extensible Media Formats Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling Industry Leading Content Protection
- 11. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Media Support for Higher Quality Video and Audio IIS7 Smooth Streaming Live & On-Demand True HD 720p+ IIS Media Services (formerly IIS Media Pack) is an integrated Media HTTP media delivery platform, which features Smooth Streaming which dynamically detects and seamlessly switches, in real time, Graphics the video quality of a media file delivered to Silverlight based clients depending on local bandwidth and CPU conditions. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 12. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Media Support for Higher Quality Video and Audio More Format Choices In addition to native support for VC-1/WMA, Silverlight 3 now Media offers native support for H.264 and AAC, giving content distributors a choice of widely supported industry formats Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 13. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Media Support for Higher Quality Video and Audio True HD Playback in Full Screen Silverlight 3 leverages graphics processor unit (GPU) hardware Media acceleration to deliver true full-screen 720p+ HD video playback Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 14. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Media Support for Higher Quality Video and Audio Extensible Media Format Support With the new Raw AV pipeline, Silverlight can support a wide Media variety of third-party codecs. Audio and video can be decoded outside the runtime and passed to Silverlight for Graphics rendering, extending format support beyond the native codecs. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 15. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Media Support for Higher Quality Video and Audio Industry Leading Content Protection Silverlight DRM, Powered by PlayReady Content Protection Media enables protected in-browser experiences using AES encryption or Windows Media DRM. Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 16. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Media Support for Higher Quality Video and Audio Demos Media Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 17. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Graphics Empowering Rich Experiences Perspective 3D Graphics Bitmap Caching Media Graphics New Bitmap API Themed App Support Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling Enhanced Control Skinning Improved Text Rendering
- 18. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Graphics Empowering Rich Experiences Perspective 3D Graphics & Animation Effects Silverlight 3 supports Perspective 3d Effects, so users can rotate Media or scale live content in space without writing any additional code, and Animation Effects such as spring and bounce, to make more Graphics natural movement. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 19. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Graphics Empowering Rich Experiences Bitmap Caching Silverlight 3 dramatically improves the rendering performance of Media applications by allowing users to cache vector content, text, and controls into bitmaps. Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 20. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Graphics Empowering Rich Experiences New Bitmap API & Pixel Shader Effects Read and write pixel values directly to a bitmap with the new Media Bitmap API, and use the new Pixel Shader Effects such as blur and drop shadow or create your own unique effects that can be Graphics applied to any control or object in the application. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 21. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Graphics Empowering Rich Experiences Themed Application Support Developers can now theme applications by applying styles to Media their controls and changing them at runtime. Additionally, styles can be cascaded by basing them on each other. Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 22. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Graphics Empowering Rich Experiences Enhanced Control Skinning Silverlight 3 provides easier skinning capabilities by keeping a Media common set of controls external from an application. This allows the sharing of styles and control skins between different Graphics applications. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 23. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Graphics Empowering Rich Experiences Improved Text Rendering & Font Support Silverlight 3 provides greatly more efficient rendering and rapid Media animation of text, and applications can load faster by enabling the use of local fonts. Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 24. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Graphics Empowering Rich Experiences Demos Media Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 25. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Dev Productivity Improving RIA Development Productivity Controls Search Discoverability Media Graphics .NET RIA Services Improved Performance Dev Productivity Framework Out of Browser Design Tooling Advanced Accessibility
- 26. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Dev Productivity Improving RIA Development Productivity 60+ Controls 60+ high-quality, fully skinnable and customizable controls avilable such as charting and media, new layout containers such Media as dock and viewbox, and controls such as autocomplete, treeview and datagrid. Controls come with nine professional Graphics designed themes and the source code can be modified/recompiled or utilized as-is. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 27. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Dev Productivity Improving RIA Development Productivity Search Engine Discoverability Solve the SEO-related challenges posed by RIAs by utilizing business objects on the server, together with ASP.NET controls Media and site maps, and automatically mirror database-driven RIA content into HTML that is easily indexed by the leading search Graphics engines. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 28. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Dev Productivity Improving RIA Development Productivity .NET RIA Services Framework .NET RIA services and a new set of data controls for Silverlight 3 provide a range of new capabilities which make it easier than Media ever before to build out a complex, data driven user interface. New features include Element to Element Binding, Data Form Graphics controls, data validation capabilities, and support for business objects on both the client and server Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 29. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Dev Productivity Improving RIA Development Productivity Improved Performance Improvements include Application Library Caching to reduce application size, Enhanced DeepZoom for more fluid navigation Media with larger DeepZoom collections, Binary XML for compressed and thus speedier communication with the server, and Local Graphics Connection which allows communication between two Silverlight Dev Productivity applications on the client without server roundtrip Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 30. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Dev Productivity Improving RIA Development Productivity Demos Media Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 31. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Out of Browser Out of Browser Run Apps Out of Browser Desktop & Start Menu Media Graphics Safer & More Secure Smooth Installation Dev Productivity & Auto Update Out of Browser Design Tooling Windows Integration Connectivity Detection
- 32. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Out of Browser Out of Browser Run Applications Outside of the Web Browser Media Applications can now be installed and run from the desktop as lightweight web companions, allowing users to take their favorite Graphics Web applications with them, regardless of whether they are connected to the Internet or not. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 33. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Out of Browser Out of Browser Desktop Shortcuts & Start Menu Support Applications can be stored on the desktop on both Windows and Media Mac OS, and accessed with one-click from the Start Menu or Applications Folder Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 34. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Out of Browser Out of Browser Safer & More Secure Silverlight leverages the security features of the .NET Framework, and runs inside a secure sandbox with persistent Media isolated storage. As they share most of the security restrictions of traditional web apps, Silverlight apps can be trusted without Graphics security warnings or prompts, minimizing user interruptions. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 35. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Out of Browser Out of Browser Smooth Installation & Auto-Update Media Silverlight applications are stored in a local cache and do not require extra privileges to run, so the installation process is quick Graphics and efficient as well as consumer friendly, with support for non-administrator install . Upon launch applications can check Dev Productivity for new versions and automatically update themselves. Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 36. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Out of Browser Out of Browser Windows Support Take advantage of new Windows 7 capabilities with support for Media Superbar integration, multitouch user input, and location aware services such as GPS support. Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 37. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Out of Browser Out of Browser Connectivity Detection In Browser / Out of Browser Media Silverlight applications can now detect whether they have Internet connectivity and can react intelligently including caching Graphics a users’ data until their connection is restored. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 38. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Out of Browser Out of Browser Demo Media Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 39. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Design Tooling Designed for Silverlight 3 Media Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Expression Blend 3 enables developers and designers to take full advantage of the underlying power of the delivery platform. Design Tooling 3D transformations in Silverlight, visual effects such as blur and glow, hardware acceleration, and the Visual State Manager allow the exploration of new design concepts
- 40. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Design Tooling Breakthrough Design w/ Expression Blend 3 Prototyping w/ SkethFlow Visual Design Workflow Media Graphics Accessible Interactivity Design w/ Data Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling VSTF Integration Design Surface Extensibility
- 41. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Design Tooling Breakthrough Design w/ Expression Blend 3 Breakthrough Design Prototyping SketchFlow introduces a new set of innovative features for the rapid prototyping of user experiences. SketchFlow helps Media designers rapidly explore the navigation and composition of an application using visual tools without the need for coding, to Graphics communicate ideas to other stakeholders, and to collect in- context annotated feedback. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling Start Navigation Main Menu Data Entry
- 42. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Design Tooling Breakthrough Design w/ Expression Blend 3 Visual Design Workflow Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator import enables integration with existing workflows, with full support for individual layers which Media retain their original layer effects, layout, editable text, and vector content. Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 43. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Design Tooling Breakthrough Design w/ Expression Blend 3 Accessible Interactivity Add interactivity to applications without having to write code using Behaviors, which encapsulate complex design interactions Media into reusable components which can be directly applied to a user interface element in the application. Graphics Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling Behave
- 44. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Design Tooling Breakthrough Design w/ Expression Blend 3 Design with Data Design time Sample Data makes it easy to design data- connected applications without access to live data, and with fast Media and easy generation of “dummy” placeholder data. Graphics Dev Productivity Name URL Phone Out of Browser John Doe www.yes.com 555-1234 Design Tooling Sue Smith www.no.com 555-5678 Li Wei www.hm.com 313-1234
- 45. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Design Tooling Breakthrough Design w/ Expression Blend 3 Source Control Integration w/ VS Team Foundation Server Media Teams can access Team Foundation Server directly from Expression Blend ensuring they can collaborate effectively with Graphics the rest of the team; work is versioned, tracked, backed-up and above all safe. Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 46. Silverlight 3 New Capabilities : Design Tooling Breakthrough Design w/ Expression Blend 3 Design Surface Extensibility Custom project and item templates, custom context menu items, custom adorners on the design surface when a designer selects Media a custom component, and enhanced support for VS2010 extensibility APIs all help provide a fluid design and development Graphics environment Dev Productivity Out of Browser Design Tooling
- 47. Summary
- 48. Silverlight 3 Themes Support for Higher Quality Video & Audio Empowering Rich Experiences Improving RIA Productivity Out of Browser Capabilities Expression Blend 3 Preview
- 49. Bits Available Available Mix 2009 Silverlight Version 3 Beta March 17 www.microsoft.com/silverlight Expression Blend 3 Preview www.microsoft.com/expression Official launch on July 10, 2009
- 50. © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.