Silverlight 3 included many new features such as H.264 video support, bitmap effects, 3D perspective capabilities, and multi-touch support. Expression Blend 3 allowed coding directly within the tool and importing Photoshop files. IE8 and Sketchflow were also released with new capabilities for web development and rapid prototyping.

1. MIX09 Keynote
News
IMPACT & EFFECT

2. •Silverlight 3
•Expression Blend 3
•IE8
•SuperPreview
•Sketchflow

4. Silverlight 3
H.264 support at last!
Add your own Media Codecs
Adaptive Streaming

5. Silverlight 3
Bitmap effects
Drop Shadow
Pixel shading
Magnification

6. Silverlight 3
Perspective 3D
Easing Animations Built in
Ditching Silverlight 2 DLLs

7. Silverlight 3
Plane Projection
Pixel Shading
Incorporated features

8. Silverlight 3
Communication between
Browser Instances
Dynamic Skinning
System Colours
ClearType text compatibility

9. Silverlight 3
Multi-Touch support
MASSIVE changes

11. Expression Blend 3
No need for Visual Studio
Coding within Blend

12. Expression Blend 3
Import of PhotoShop PSD Files

16. IE8 Released
Web Slices
Accelerators

17. SuperPreview
Cross-Browser Compatibility FTW!
Preview and compare:
Any OS
Any Browser
No More VM’s or VPC’s
Standalone App available Now

18. SketchFlow
Rapid Prototyping
New workflow
UI Iterations

19. SketchFlow
Use of ‘States’
Stakeholder feedback
Productivity FTW!

20. SketchFlow
PSD Previews!
Mouse Gesture Behaviours

22. What does this mean
for us?

23. SWAG Comp!