New Features in Silverlight 3

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

ted7 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:08:57 GMT

I realize SL4 is focusing on printing and on business.
Here's a whole other direction which may really help SL: education.
    With tons of online courses being developed why not provide
         SL4 tools which would allow teachers to develop courses using
          SL4. Making it easy is key for most educators. Which is why
           the Popfly approach (before it went defunct) would have been
            great for teachers. The following are some basics that might
           easily be incorporated into SL4:
1) Full importation ability of PowerPoint presentations
2) Quizzer/exam test bank components and templates
3) Class grading template
4) Content presentation templates (cf. Second Life worlds and avatars)
5) The ability to take an Avatar and lip synch audio content
Just some ideas as a teacher. Hook them while they're young and you've
    got them for life

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

FuryDiamond — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:52:42 GMT

Silverlight 4 features are being presented at PDC 09.

http://www.microsoftpdc.com

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

JoseRibeiro — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:25:33 GMT

1. GPU video playback acceleration.

Flash will have this in 10.1, which is a killer feature

Re: Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

naoufel — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:16:07 GMT

All proposed wishes are good, in addition I want:

1- To include HTML Zone (except TextBlock win new RUN for each time), this make a freedom and easy way to design our page with HTML + CSS + Control in expression BLEND 4

2- For 3D, including GLCanvas or DX canvas to write native code C++ and use it with silverlight 4.

3- Add a set of effects like After Effects.

4- Making Binding property more easier

Naoufel

Re: Re: Re: Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

kiener — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:14:48 GMT

@dr d b karron

The uservoice page is the official wishlist, it's created by the Silverlight Program managers.

http://silverlight.uservoice.com/pages/4325-feature-suggestions

Re: Re: Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

dr d b karron — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:38:51 GMT

Dear Silverlighter wishers;

this list is getting too long.

my seconds or wishes:

We setup a cubby hole/pidgeon hole bin for each feature and get to contribute to it.

PRINTING ! yes, very important for my class of users.

Direct to PDF for documentation and review.

Dead doc and post mortum.

WEEL SUPPORT:

RIght wheel, left wheel, and scroll box needs to understand wheelies.

I'm writing it in c# now.

UPDATE functionality: I am writing a "UPDATE ME" button;

silverlight should feed into a release repository, versioning, and allow

users to update or auto update under them. I am finding lots of users just won't update in the dark and it needs to be done for them.

MIDI support; i'm writing it now.

better support of vertical styles. my XAML lines get too long, and I see

better each item on its own line..... and i would like to sort long lists in some way.

better support of one off controls without making a style or template or resource.

auto styling

auto templating

look up the system tree and browse and inherite/overload from system and installed packages.

direct application of animations without linking c# or VB code; just

connect it in VRML and permit ordering of linkages (VRML code first,

c# code second, etc)

start a new forum for wishes ?

Re: Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

samcov — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:38:55 GMT

.Net 4.0 Framework incorporated.

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

Roger Larsen — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:12:21 GMT

1) GPU accelerate pixel shaders

This is a very limiting factor for an application I'm working on now. Whenever I want to animate an object with a pixel shader effect (either custom made effect or the built in ones), the framerate drops dramatically. My workaround for all of these is to remove the effect during animation, and re-enabling them when the animation stops. Picture an image with a drop shadow effect which moves around on the screen, the only way to get decent performance is to remove the effect during movement.

2) Webcam / mic support

With P2P possibilties (not really a must, but would be nice to eliminate server bandwith requirements if you want to create meeting app and so forth)

3) Support for SQL Compact Edition on client side

This would be a very handy feature for off line cache of client data. Having to write serializers for all local object storage is tedious and having a LINQ2SQL feature for local on / off line of data would be extremely handy and would open up a host of interesting application ideas. (With change tracking to enable sync of data for occationally connected systems)

4) GPU acceleration fix for app in windowed mode on a Mac

Thanks,

Roger Larsen

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

pjwang — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:32:24 GMT

real time media support

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

Dabiel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:37:12 GMT

By far my number one feature need is PRINTING. We use Fast-Report as reporting tool. Each time that we need to see a report, we need to open a new window in the browser because Fast-Report is ASP based. Fast-Report company is waiting that Silverlight includes printing support to offer Fast-Report in SL platform, because now, it does not make sense to show a report in SL and then you cannot print it.

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

ted7 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:57:26 GMT

Can't get on this wishlist but here are two things I would like in Silverlight 4
1) Component for VR panoramas, 360 rotation, hotspots for linking to develop walk throughs, be able to add text and note degrees of rotation, zoomin/zoomout.
2) Lip synch (like what is in MS Agent Technology)

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

RickBullotta — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:41:14 GMT

Psychlist1972:
5. We're doing a very large data-driven application here. DataTable/whatever isn't going to be your savior no matter what -- it doesn't contain enough metadata. What you can do, and this is something my colleage on the team did, is write a custom IValueConverter that takes in the field name for an item in a dictionary. Behind the scenes it does the binding for you and it all pretty much works as expected.

Not sure I agree - DataTable (and DataSet) have a ton of metadata in them, more than most applications would really need. We've had to implement our own "easily serializable"/streamable DataTable equivalent (we call it an InfoTable) to fill this gap. One of the big ugly performance issues with lots of the .NET/Silverlight stack has to do with serialization, which is an unnecessary "tax" (CPU, clock time and memory) in most cases. There should be built-in mechanisms for high performance streamed serialization instead of having to roll your own every time. We were able to reduce response time and increase performance about 3X by using a custom binary streaming serialization model for the "InfoTable" - and since passing data between server and client is one of the most common tasks for many of the targets for Silverlight, it oughta be "built in".

Silverlight 4 Wishlist

ankitavyas — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:20:30 GMT

I would say more Cursors. At the moment very few cursors, If you are resizing something, you can't have Corner Cursors at the moment. Drag as a property of each control.

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

sasideva — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:47:35 GMT

Reportviewer Control should be in Silverlight tools.

Re: Silverlight 4 Wishlist

GSv — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:51:06 GMT

* More Bindings Supported in WCF

* Printing Capability

* OOB on par with Adobe AIR

* Silverlight Suppotr for Mobile