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Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS X or Windows.
What's New
Version 5.0.61118.0:
- Improved media support
- Low Latency Audio Playback: Use the SoundEffect API to trigger low-latency sound
- Variable Speed Playback: allows video to be played at different speeds and supports fast-forward and rewind. At up to twice the speed, audio pitch correction allows users to watch videos while preserving a normal audio pitch.
- H/W Decode of H.264 media: Significant performance improvements with H.264 media decoding of unprotected content
- DRM Key Rotation/LiveTV Playback: Long-running live TV playback protected through the use of rotating licenses
- Application-Restricted Media: Prevents playback of protected content in unauthorized applications
- Improved Text support
- Text Tracking & Leading: Exercise fine-grained control over the spacing between characters and lines in your text
- Linked Text Containers: Create linked RichTextBlocks that allow text to flow seamlessly from one to the next
- OpenType and Pixel Snapped Text : Improved text clarity
- Postscript vector printing: reduces the size of print jobs and improves rendering quality of text
- Performance improvements for Block Layout Engine.
- Building next-generation business applications
- PivotViewer -- now included in SDK. Adds support for dynamic client-based collections, XAML-based visuals, and customizability.
- ClickCount: Add support for multi-click to your application
- Listbox/ComboBox type-ahead text searching: Listboxes and ComboBoxes can now scroll based on text input
- Ancestor RelativeSource Binding: Bind to a property on a parent control
- Implicit DataTemplates: Allow DataTemplates to be defined implicitly
- DataContextChanged event
- Added PropertyChanged to the UpdateSourceTrigger enum
- Save File and Open File Dialog: Specify a default filename when you launch your SaveFileDialog and specify a default directory when you launch your OpenFileDialog
- Databinding Debugging: Set a breakpoint directly in XAML, examine locals, and debug your bindings
- Custom Markup Extensions: Execute custom code at XAML parse time
- Binding on Style Setters: You can now specify a binding within a style
- Silverlight 5 performance improvements
- Parser Performance Improvements: Improved XAML parse times for UserControls & ResourceDictionaries
- Network Latency Improvements: Significant performance improvement in ClientHttpWebRequest scenarios
- H/W accelerated rendering in IE9 windowless mode: Silverlight now uses the new SurfacePresenter APIs for H/W accelerated rendering in IE9 windowless mode
- Multicore JIT: Shortens the start-up time for Silverlight apps
- 64-bit browser support
- Graphics improvements
- Improved Graphics stack: The graphics stack has been re-architected to add features such as Independent Animations
- 3D: Use the XNA API on the Windows platform to gain low-level access to the GPU and draw vertex shaders and low-level 3D primitives. Includes Render targets, XNA built-in effects, surface composition settings for depth/stencil buffers and multi-sample anti-aliasing
- Silverlight 5 extends features of the "Trusted Application" model
- Silverlight 5 extends features of the 'Trusted Application' model to the browser for the first time. These features, 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:
- Multiple window support: Launch multiple top-level windows inside a SL OOB application
- Full-Trust in-browser: Using Group Policy, deploy signed in-browser applications that harness the full power of full-trust functionality
- In-browser HTML support: Host your WebOC within an in-browser SL application
- Unrestricted File System Access: Read from and write to any directory on your system, from a full-trust application
- P/Invoke support : Allows existing native code to be run directly from Silverlight
- Tools improvements
- Visual Studio Team Test support.
Version 5.0.61118.0:
- Improved media support
- Low Latency Audio Playback: Use the SoundEffect API to trigger low-latency sound
- Variable Speed Playback: allows video to be played at different speeds and supports fast-forward and rewind. At up to twice the speed, audio pitch correction allows users to watch videos while preserving a normal audio pitch.
- H/W Decode of H.264 media: more...
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
- Firefox 3 or later, Safari 4 or later, or other modern browser
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Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS X or Windows.
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Yep.
Oddly enough when I was redirected to the Silverlight page it stated I already had this version installed. Go figure.
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Jeff H. reviewed on 16 Nov 2011
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Cerniuk reviewed on 06 Sep 2011
Someone explain why we need another proprietary "me too" sub standard technology from the Microsoft hegemony factory?
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Culture Of One reviewed on 26 Jun 2011
For those looking for a way to configure Silverlight to maximize bandwidth, etc., there is a series of menus for configuring the software. Sadly, it's not as simple as right-clicking on the screen (so I give it a slightly lower ease-of-use rating). When Silverlight is running in regular windowed screen mode (ie not full screen):
For menu: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M
For the a/v status: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D
For stream manager: Crtl+Alt+Shift+S
For player info: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P
The first one is the crucial one to memorize, as it will get you to the others. Supposedly the following work as well, but I've never managed to get them to function:
For download history: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H
For frame rate histogram: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F
For bandwidth history: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B
For buffer level history/prediction: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V
I highly recommend experimenting with the stream manager if you're unhappy with the quality of streamed video on Netflix. You'd be surprised how much just tweaking the buffering can improve picture quality!
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Caleb Gilbert reviewed on 15 Feb 2011
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trungpt reviewed on 17 Jan 2011
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However, it's obvious that Windoze lemming is troll baiting as usual!
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Davidpabian reviewed on 23 Sep 2010
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Amen.
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Adobe does offer the tools, equal, exactly the same versions and guess what? Designers like to use OS X.
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I know the trend of "hating" Adobe but please, get real. If MS offered exactly the same software tools on OS X, even 64bit, you would be right. You are running Windows, don't let that fancy virtualisation software coded in Cocoa fool you. That is Windows you run.
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Llama rated on 17 Mar 2011
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OSX-FTW! rated on 15 Feb 2011
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OSX-FTW! rated on 03 Jan 2011
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Noybb rated on 30 Dec 2010