- Posted by christhi on November 18, 2008
Although I can't talk about much what I can say about SilverLight 3 is that it will be next year and will include the following:
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Major media enhancements (including H.264 video support)
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Major graphics improvements (including 3D support and GPU hardware acceleration)
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Major application development improvements (including richer data-binding support and additional controls).
Next year Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express will also support a fully editable and interactive designer for Silverlight, and add tool support for data-binding. The most interesting by far is 3D support and until now was a tool discussion since supporting 3D really meant at the ability to easily design 3D-like solutions using a 2D space leveraging transforms as an example. This is possible today with SilverLight with libraries such as Kit3D at http://www.codeplex.com/Kit3D but it is not integrated into the Expression toolset so developers will still need to roll up there sleeves a bit.
More to come on future posts....