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Whati?1/2s new in Silverlight 3.0.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
Byline: Tim Anderson
What's new in Silverlight 3.0
Silverlight 3.0 is in beta, and promised before the end of the year. It is a substantial update. On the multimedia side, there's support for the popular H.264 video and AAC audio formats, and on the design side there's 3D graphic effects and the ability to write pixels to bitmaps, enabling freedom to create any kind of effect in code.
There are also changes aimed at developers, which is where Silverlight is attracting the most interest. There are now over 60 controls, including a much-requested File Save dialogue. A new Data Form control with validation controls is supported by a server-side library for ASP.Net, called .Net RIA Services, which will simplify authentication, security, and data operations.
In Silverlight 2.0, data crosses the network as XML, which is inefficient. Binary XML in Silverlight 3.0 compresses the data and should speed performance.
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