What’s after Silverlight 1.1?
May 2, 2007 | 3:35 amHere is the Silverlight poster distributed to MIX attendees.
From that, we get a few answers to ”what’s next after Silverlight 1.1″ questions:
- Opera support coming soon.
- Windows 2000 support coming soon
- SoapBox would start using Silverlight soon, and also offer services
- Built in support for downloading and parsing Atom/RSS coming soon
- New language called VBx. Maybe more information might break at the VB Team’s blog.
- Visual Studio gets a new logo?
Or, maybe just a small designer tweak? - BackgroundWorker support: Multithreaded coding without much of the hassle.
- WCF client support. Gotta digg for that one.
- Built in XMLSerializer support for easier communication with ASP.NET server app. You have to parse the XML/JSON yourself with the parsers if you’re playing with another server platform.
That’ll be Silverlight 2.0 methinks.
Thanks to Collins(who has a honkey wonkey awesome about page) for the link to the Poster.
Just "Colin" :) Macromedia/Adobe isn't big on supporting Flash in desktop
colin | May 2, 2007 | 1:10 pmJust “Colin”
Macromedia/Adobe isn’t big on supporting Flash in desktop applications, so hopefully Microsoft will beat them on that.
If Silverlight really does contain a WPF subset then it would be possible to achieve with some source mangement anyway.
Oops! I have a friend named Collins, so that caused
yuvipanda | May 2, 2007 | 2:10 pmOops! I have a friend named Collins, so that caused the confusion
From my very little understanding, Adobe’s released Apollo, which is supposed to be competing with WPF. ANd also from what I’ve heard and read, it’s nowhere near close(Only JS, Not that many Libraries, etc).
Oh, and BTW, Silverlight DOES support File Access on the Local Machine, but in a sandboxed secure way. I’m testing how it turns out right now, and might have a post out soon….
P.S. A library of controls and other UI items is supposed to be on the way. I was looking for the TextBox control
And, hey, thanks a lot for dropping by!