It’s time for all of you .NET programmers out there to get excited as the new version of Microsoft’s premier web application framework has been released.
The Silverlight team released a press release a few days ago announcing the upgrade and describing all of the new goodies that have been included. Some of these include:
- Improved support for various media formats such (as well as some nifty variable speed playback support.
- Improved text support.
- Improved graphics.
- Generally improved performance.
- Lots of nice extensions and such for “Building next-generation business applications.”
Apparently this release of Silverlight allows developers to use the trusted application format. According to their report, that means that “when enabled via a group policy registry key and an application certificate, mean users won’t need to leave the browser to perform complex tasks.” For more information on the new release (such as what what it does, where to get it, and how to use it) check out this blog post that is linked from the ASP.net website.
