Silverlight 5 Beta is released. As an innovative software vendor keeping up-to-date with the latest technologies we couldn’t but test our Silverlight products – Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight and Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services – for compatibility. Tests show that both components are completely compatible with Silverlight 5 and provide stable work.
Further development on Silverlight 5 will allow us to make the following features even more powerful and efficient:
- Printing in Silverlight Viewer. Full-fledge vector printing will be available.
- Text rendering.
- Performance of text output.
Silverlight 5 continues the pace of rapid innovation, building on Silverlight 4′s capabilities in the areas of rich applications and premium media experiences. New capabilities promise to improve developer productivity.
Top Beta features include:
- XAML Debugging with breakpoints for binding debugging
- Implicit data templates for easy UI reuse
- Double (and multi) click support
- GPU-accelerated XNA-compatible 3D and immediate-mode 2D API
- Low-latency sound effects and WAV support
- Real operating system windows and multi-display support
- Significant performance improvements, fixes and much more
See what’s new video from Pete Brown: http://www.silverlight.net/learn/videos/all/whats-new-in-silverlight-5-beta/
Detailed information and how-to’s: http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-5-beta/
Early followers of Silverlight 5 can test and play with our Silverlight components right now.
