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Past months Silverlight community buzzed like a disturbed beehive. The news that Microsoft is „shifting its Silverlight strategy“ and going full forward to embrace HTML 5 as its cross-browser cross-platform solution cut a splash among developers and IT specialists. |
But, this panic about “Silverlight is Dead” was premature. At the beginning of December, all the myths about Silverlight future were shattered. New features of Silverlight 5 were announced on Silverlight Firestarter event.
Improvements in Silverlight 5 will deal with media support and UI capabilities, rich application development environment that enables you to build great business applications. The precise description on these features can be seen on Microsoft Silverlight site.
In connection with this Perpetuum Software LLC starts the development of its products according Silverlight 5 functionality. Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight and Silverlight Viewer for reporting Services are two products intended for the creation of feature-rich corporate applications in Silverlight.
These components has already proved themselves as flexible reliable native Silverlight controls which address the most sophisticated demands of up-to-date technologies. Silverlight 5 will allow us to improve:
- Printing in Silverlight Viewer. There will be available full-fledge vector printing.
- Text rendering.
- Performance of text output.
We believe that this key functionality will considerably increase components productivity and provide our clients with more abilities in RIA creation and, as a result, business success.
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