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Scott Guthrie, a couple of days ago told in a few lines about the upcoming first beta version of Silverlight 2.
I will not fully translate Scott's post, but will only dwell on interesting (in my opinion) details. Firstly, it is of course cross-platform. In all. Now developers can write to any .NET-language: VB, C #, JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby ...
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Secondly, the developers made it easier for you to embed UI elements (as part of the WPF UI Framework), added rich controls (TextBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, Slider, ScrollViewer, Calendar, DatePicker, etc.).
Third, Silverlight 2 will have 'rich networking' support: support for REST calls, WS * / SOAP, POX, RSS and other standard HTTP services. Immediately I will mention, once again, and about cross-domain access to various resources.
Fourth, of course, this is the Rich Base Class Library, which includes huge functionality (collections, IO, threads, globalization, XML, etc.), as well as the ability to use the API for HTML DOM / JavaScript integration with .NET code.
Silverlight 2 does not require you to install the .NET Framework on your computer, because the installer (by the way, the weight of it is much higher than the first version - 4.3MB) has everything you need. And Silverlight 2 will work in IE, FireFox and Safari browsers. Opera - not yet in honor.
In addition, Scott, with the release of the first beta version of Silverlight 2, promised to post a silverlight clone of Digg. Well, wait, as you can see, not a long time.
As for Flash, it is quite obvious that the Redmond giant does not want to leave Flash to the king of the mountain. And comes. And makes it big strides. I don’t know what Adobe can answer. Now she has other priorities - the popularization of Flex and AIR.
Scott Guthrie, a couple of days ago told in a few lines about the upcoming first beta version of Silverlight 2.
I will not fully translate Scott's post, but will only dwell on interesting (in my opinion) details. Firstly, it is of course cross-platform. In all. Now developers can write to any .NET-language: VB, C #, JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby ...
')
Secondly, the developers made it easier for you to embed UI elements (as part of the WPF UI Framework), added rich controls (TextBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, Slider, ScrollViewer, Calendar, DatePicker, etc.).
Third, Silverlight 2 will have 'rich networking' support: support for REST calls, WS * / SOAP, POX, RSS and other standard HTTP services. Immediately I will mention, once again, and about cross-domain access to various resources.
Fourth, of course, this is the Rich Base Class Library, which includes huge functionality (collections, IO, threads, globalization, XML, etc.), as well as the ability to use the API for HTML DOM / JavaScript integration with .NET code.
Silverlight 2 does not require you to install the .NET Framework on your computer, because the installer (by the way, the weight of it is much higher than the first version - 4.3MB) has everything you need. And Silverlight 2 will work in IE, FireFox and Safari browsers. Opera - not yet in honor.
In addition, Scott, with the release of the first beta version of Silverlight 2, promised to post a silverlight clone of Digg. Well, wait, as you can see, not a long time.
As for Flash, it is quite obvious that the Redmond giant does not want to leave Flash to the king of the mountain. And comes. And makes it big strides. I don’t know what Adobe can answer. Now she has other priorities - the popularization of Flex and AIR.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/20759/
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