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	Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Silverlight 4 Beta Summary

by andy@andybeaulieu.com via Andy's Blog on 11/18/2009 10:29:00 PM

At the PDC Conference today, The Gu unveiled the first public release of Silverlight 4 (Beta). This release has some really great additions, but I am most excited about the advances in Business Application Development for Silverlight.Why will Silverlight 4 be better for Business App Development? RIA ServicesWCF RIA Services (formerly .NET RIA Services) makes it quick and easy to create a Service layer that wraps your Data Access Layer - whether your DAL uses the Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, o ...

Silverlight 4 Beta: Implicit Styles

by andy@andybeaulieu.com via Andy's Blog on 11/18/2009 10:24:00 PM

The ability to create Implicit Styles has been a sorely missed feature in Silverlight… until Silverlight 4! The concept of an implicit style is very simple – you define how you want ALL instances of a control to look in one place (you can then override those styles if you need to). Setting an implicit style in XAML Let’s say we want all of our TextBox controls in our application to have White text on a Red background. We can step into our App.xaml and add the following XAML: ...

Discovering Silverlight 4 – What is new?

by vbandi via VBandi's blog on 11/18/2009 9:24:00 PM

Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie revealed Silverlight 4 in his keynote. The painful silence enforced by the NDA is now over, and I can talk about all the cool new stuff on Silverlight 4! To me, the most amazing thing is how much the Silverlight team has been listening to the community. Just take a look at the Top 10 most requested SL4 features at: http://silverlight.uservoice.com/pages/4325-feature-suggestions, and compare it with the whatsnew document - 8 out of the top 10 ...

Silverlight 4 beta released at #PDC09

by Laurent Bugnion via Silverlight on 11/18/2009 7:58:06 PM

Well people, it was an amazing keynote. Silverlight 4 beta was just presented by Scott Guthrie at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 in Los Angeles. As soon as Silverlight 3 was released a few months ago, the Silverlight team started working on new features to create what will be a really exciting release. As of now, the Silverlight 4 beta bits and all the necessary tools are available for download. Probably the best place to start is Tim Heuer (Silverlight evangelist for Microsoft) w ...

Silverlight 4 beta released at #PDC09

by Laurent Bugnion via Silverlight on 11/18/2009 7:58:06 PM

Well people, it was an amazing keynote. Silverlight 4 beta was just presented by Scott Guthrie at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 in Los Angeles. As soon as Silverlight 3 was released a few months ago, the Silverlight team started working on new features to create what will be a really exciting release. As of now, the Silverlight 4 beta bits and all the necessary tools are available for download. Probably the best place to start is Tim Heuer (Silverlight evangelist for Microsoft) w ...

Silverlight 4 Beta, RIA Services... and Beer!

by andy@andybeaulieu.com via Andy's Blog on 11/18/2009 7:27:00 PM

Silverlight 4 Beta and Visual Studio 2010 add much in the line of Rapid Application Development. Besides adding support for the Cider XAML designer and properties window, we now have Data Sources Window support for RIA Services.In this (quite long) blog post, I’ll walk through the creation a Line of Business-type application using Silverlight 4, RIA Services, and Visual Studio 2010. Contents The Ingredients. 1 Getting Started. 1 Adding a New Page. 2 Adding the Database and Image Assets. 3 Crea ...

Enabling Validation in Silverlight 4 with IDataErrorInfo

by John Papa via JohnPapa.net on 11/18/2009 6:35:00 PM

One of the new features of Silverlight 4 Beta is the addition of the IDataErrorInfo interface. In Silverlight 3 we throw exceptions when a property value is invalid. The IDataErrorInfo interface has been around in .NET but is new to Silverlight 4 beta. It allows you to invalidate property values without throwing exceptions. Implementing this interface is pretty straightforward, though there are several ways to do it. To help you get jumpstarted with this new feature, I included some sample cod ...

Silverlight 4 Beta Announced at PDC09: Great Learning Material Too!

by John Papa via JohnPapa.net on 11/18/2009 6:34:00 PM

Silverlight 4 Beta was announced during the Wednesday keynote of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference PDC 2009. The Silverlight product team has worked very hard to add several features, as you can see from the list below. There is a ton of information available where you can find out more about Silverlight 4 Beta including: What’s New in Silverlight 4 Video Great place to start! A short video with me and Adam Kinney reviewing our favorite features ...

Silverlight 4.0 beta released

by Andrea Boschin via Silverlight & XAML Playground on 11/18/2009 6:22:15 PM

Download Sample Code: SilverlightPlayground.SL4BetaTestConsole.zip (89K) During the Keynote of the PDC 2009 a new beta of Silverlight has been announced and made available. I think very few people did expect the early release of the version 4.0, and if you think in terms of number of new features compared with the time passed since the RTW of Silverlight 3.0 - only four months - you understand the big work made by one of the most prolific teams of Microsoft. In the latest month I could ...

Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features

by Tim Heuer via Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer on 11/18/2009 6:18:16 PM

At the Microsoft Professional Developer (PDC) conference, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Beta. WHAT?! That’s right, we’ve released an early beta of the next version of Silverlight. It’s really amazing to think what the team is accomplishing at the pace they are accomplishing it! Silverlight 3 released just over 3 months ago and here we are with yet another release full of features that our community has been asking for. This beta release is a developer relea ...

Building ContosoSales - The RIA Services Keynote Demo

by Jeff Handley via Jeff Handley on 11/18/2009 6:04:00 PM

During Scott Guthrie’s keynote at PDC09 (starting around 1:28:00), Scott Hanselman presented a demo that highlighted Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, RIA Services, and lots of great new tooling that ties all of these products together. I wanted to show you how you can build the same application using installations that are available today. Machine Setup You’ll need to install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 if you haven't already. If you have a previous release of RIA Services already installed, ...

Bugs fixed (or not) in Silverlight 4 Beta

by StefanOlson via Stefan Olson's Blog on 11/18/2009 2:41:17 PM

As I did after the Silverlight 2 & 3 releases, I thought it would be a good idea to review the bugs that I have submitted, to see what progress is. If you haven't already downloaded the Silverlight 4 beta, you can get all the information you need about this release from Tim Heuer's blog: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx Thankfully bug fixing progress is much better than I expected this time. Five bugs are fixed, althoug ...

Silverlight 4 beta and web cam support

by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 11/18/2009 9:28:34 AM

I'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WPFE several years ago, we never thought silverlight would evolve so quickly, but here we are. One of the most exciting features, which allot of users have been asking for since the bad old Silverlight 1.1 days is webcam and mic support like they had known in flex. Now with Silverlight 4 you will have direct access to both mic and webcam. This opens up allot of possib ...

Silverlight 4 beta and web cam support

by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 11/18/2009 9:28:34 AM

I'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WPFE several years ago, we never thought silverlight would evolve so quickly, but here we are. One of the most exciting features, which allot of users have been asking for since the bad old Silverlight 1.1 days is webcam and mic support like they had known in flex. Now with Silverlight 4 you will have direct access to both mic and webcam. This opens up allot of possib ...

Silverlight 4 beta and web cam support

by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 11/18/2009 9:28:34 AM

I'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WPFE several years ago, we never thought silverlight would evolve so quickly, but here we are. One of the most exciting features, which allot of users have been asking for since the bad old Silverlight 1.1 days is webcam and mic support like they had known in flex. Now with Silverlight 4 you will have direct access to both mic and webcam. This opens up allot of possib ...

Silverlight 4 beta and web cam support

by Michael Wolf via Michael Wolf on 11/18/2009 9:28:34 AM

I'm here at PDC 09, where I'm very excited about all the possibilities in Silverlight 4. When we jumped into 1.1/1.0/WPFE several years ago, we never thought silverlight would evolve so quickly, but here we are. One of the most exciting features, which allot of users have been asking for since the bad old Silverlight 1.1 days is webcam and mic support like they had known in flex. Now with Silverlight 4 you will have direct access to both mic and webcam. This opens up allot of possib ...

Talking at #notatpdc about Blend 3 and SketchFlow

by Laurent Bugnion via Silverlight on 11/18/2009 8:51:27 AM

NotAtPDC is an awesome initiative from within the .NET community that allows people who cannot for any reason attend one of the major conferences (such as PDC, MIX etc…) to share knowledge, have fun, interact and generally have all kind of good times without leaving their home or office. This year, I cannot make it to the Professional Developer Conference because of multiple reasons (too much work, too many travels ;)) but I will talk to the NotAtPDC conference 2009! My talk is titled Expre ...

C# 4 dynamic and DynamicObject in Silverlight 4

by einar@dolittle.com (Einar Ingebrigtsen) via Einar Ingebrigtsen on 11/18/2009 4:30:00 AM

One of the coolest new things with Silverlight 4 is the ability to use C# 4 and in particular the dynamic keyword and infrastructure that comes along with it. The dynamic keyword allows for dynamic typing in .net, which is great for a number of reasons, but alongside it there is something called DynamicObject that makes this a whole lot more interesting for development in environments such as Silverlight.The DynamicObject is a class one can derive from and override a number of methods, such as T ...

Silverlight 4 beta announced

by einar@dolittle.com (Einar Ingebrigtsen) via Einar Ingebrigtsen on 11/18/2009 3:14:00 AM

Today Scott Guthrie announced the beta release of Silverlight 4, the release rate for Silverlight is amazing. Its only been 4 months since we got the release of Silverlight 3 and now everyone is getting their hands on with the beta of version 4, amazing stuff - kudos to the Silverlight development team. I've been working with SL4 for a while now through early access from Microsoft, and I must say that I'm really impressed with what they have accomplished and the quality of the builds has ...


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