Ian Smith from irascian.co.uk presents a summary of Silverlight4 and IE9 announcements from the recent MIX10 conference in Las Vegas.
This presentation was given on 24th March 2010 at the EMC Consulting office in London.
2. Silverlight 4 Keynote Announcements Release Candidate now (no “go live” license) RTM “next month” PDC (November 2009) =45% market share, Now=“approaching*60%” Pinned full-screen mode added to RC release *Dictionary definition of “approaching” = “to make advances to” Ian Smith 1/13
3. Silverlight 4 RC Changes since Beta 2 Diff list at http://firstfloorsoftware.com/files/difflists/Silverlight 4 Beta-vs-Silverlight 4 RC.html RichTextBox (was RichTextArea) WebBrowserBrush (was HtmlBrush) Printing API Enhancements Native Automation (COM interop) Language/Script Support Networkinghttp://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2010/03/20/silverlight-4-rc-socket-security-changes.aspx User Consent Dialogs (webcam, clipboard etc) Silverlight 4 RC Offline Documentationhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b6127b9b-968c-46c2-8cb6-d228e017ad74 Updated RC Security Whitepaper athttp://blogs.msdn.com/nickkramer/archive/2010/03/19/updated-security-overview-for-silverlight-4-rc.aspx Ian Smith Ref: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/03/15/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-rc-mix10.aspx 2/13
4. Silverlight 4 RC New since Beta 2 XAP Signing for Trusted Applicationshttp://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2010/03/23/silverlight-4-rc-signing-trusted-apps-with-home-made-certificates.aspx Custom Window Chromehttp://www.silverlightplayground.org/post/2010/03/15/Chromeless-Window-for-OOB-applications-in-Silverlight-40-RC.aspx Pinned full-screen mode ContextMenu control SLLauncher Silent Installshttp://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2010/03/24/silverlight-4-rc-and-the-silent-installation.aspx WCF RIA Services Toolkit XAML Parser Changeshttp://www.davidpoll.com/2010/03/15/new-in-the-silverlight-4-rc-xaml-features/http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/visual-studio-2010-xaml-editor-intellisense-presenter-extension/ http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/03/15/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-rc-mix10.aspx http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2010/03/16/what-s-new-in-silverlight-4-rc.aspx Ian Smith 3/13
5. Silverlight 4 – Coming Soon! Silverlight Pivot Control (Summer 2010)http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/start-preparing-for-the-silverlight-pivot-control-now/ PRISM v4 (September 2010)http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2010/03/15/prism-a-look-ahead.aspx Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework (Beta available now for Silverlight 3/Blend 3) ..... Ian Smith 4/13
7. Silverlight Spy Version to support Silverlight 4 RC released Sunday, 21st March 2010 Intention is that future version will support Windows Phone Changes to way the product works will likely be necessary – ie specific build with Silverlight Spy assemblies rather than current XAP injection at download time Changes to support Windows Phone will have an impact on planned PDF support in Document Toolkit (delayed) Ian Smith Disclaimer: There is no commitment on the part of First Floor Software to guarantee the above. The above bullet points reflect the current intention rather than a guarantee. 6/13
8. Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Analytics is how you track success of your interactive experience. It’s where the money is! Designers can use it to qualify their worth to the business. There is a need to track applications running OOB so traditional HTML DOM bridge/JavaScript solution not acceptable. Video scenarios can have poor performance impact with JavaScript solution What about SketchFlow applications? How do you do A/B Testing with subtle design changes? Ian Smith 7/13
9. Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Developed from ground-up with help of Analytics companies MSAF is a key Flash differentiator for Silverlight Blend behaviours enable Designer-friendly implementation A/B Testing with State Groups and ABTesting behaviour Framework comes with Visual Studio templates Extensible using MEF Beta is Silverlight 3/Blend 3 only Ian Smith 8/13
10. Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Anything that is an event can pass data structure to the Data Collector Analytics Service 1 Online Data Collector Online Analytics Service 2 Online Analytics Service 3 Button Click Online Analytics Service 4 Button Offline Isolated Storage Privacy Statement Online Event Log Isolated Storage Online Be smart: Have a privacy statement and don’t track personal identity information Ian Smith 9/13
11. Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Analytics Service Partners partners AT Internet Comscore GlanceGuide Google Analytics Nedstat Pre-emptive Solutions Quantcast Telerik (through their control set) Coming soon Anvato Conviva Nielsen Skytide Visible Measures Webtrends Unica Infragistics? Ian Smith 10/13
12. Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Links Framework “home” pagehttp://msaf.codeplex.com/ Mix 10 video overview of SLAFhttp://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL24 SketchFlow example (slide deck with analytics)http://charette.com/saf Ian Smith 11/13
13. Internet Explorer 9 Highlights Interoperable HTML5 Markup GPU-powered HTML5 Graphics and Media Across-the-board High Performance Supports HTML 5, XHTML/XML and SVG CSS3 Selectors and Namespaces mean less code “Platform Preview” available now (doesn’t include all features shown at MIX keynote) 8-weekly “update” cycle of “Platform Preview” IETestDrive.com Let’s see some quick demo’s ..... Ian Smith 12/13
14. IE9 and ACID3 Testing IE8 managed a score of 20/100 IE9 currently has 55/100 ACID 3 high score not a priority for many reasonshttp://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/ie9-standards-and-why-acid3-isnt-the-priority.ars Ian Smith 13/13
Hinweis der Redaktion
RichTextBox:Name changed to be more consistent with WPF and also based on user feedback. Additional improvements were also enabling the ability to get the XAML that makes up the underlying runs and paragraph of the rich text. This is helpful for saving off the data and re-hydrating later if desired. Also some new text selection and position APIs to enable you programmatically select text and/or know where the current position of the text is locatedWebBrowser Control/WebBrowserBrush: Some APIs have changed. The HtmlBrush is now called the WebBrowserBrush to be consistent in naming and what it actually does.Printing API Enhancement: help developers query for the printer page size and the printable area. Another change was where the ‘document name’ is provided. It is now required and a part of the Print() methodNative Automation: API changes in the naming of the native integration (COM interop) feature for trusted applications.Language/Script Support: extended language support, including Thai and Vietnamese. Additionally support for multiple Indic scripts added.Networking: In the beta, socket ports were still being restricted in trusted applications. In this release, the port restriction for socket ranges in trusted applications is removed.Additionally, the client networking stack (ClientHttp) has been enhanced to enable UploadProgress reporting and caching support. See Mike Taulty’s blog for good information on socket changes.User Consent Dialogs: Consent dialogs now give the user the option to remember the setting which is persisted to their preferences only for that application and is in their control via new Permissions tab on Silverlight Configuration dialog
XAP Signing – gives new install prompt dialog for trusted applicationsCustom Window Chrome – but beware removal of usual close/minimise/maximise buttons – you’ll have to manually implement these.Pinned full-screen mode – HD video viewing on one monitor, coding on another ContextMenu control – makes wiring up events for right mouse click much easierSLLauncher Silent Installs – useful for CD-based installationsWCF RIA Services Toolkit – separate beta install, and no documentation, but adds: LinqToSqlDomainServiceSOAP endpoint – enabling exposing a SOAP endpoint for your DomainServiceJSON endpoint – enabling exposing a JSON endpoint for your DomainServiceASP.NET DomainDataSource – enabling your ASP.NET application to talk to your DomainServiceXAML Parser Changes – Direct content for Button at last! Make sure you install Karl Shifflet’s extension for VS2010 to get Intellisense in the XAML editor just like in the code editor window
PRISM 2 was Silverlight 2. PRISM 2.1 contained some patches for Silverlight 3. PRISM 2.2 will have patches for Silverlight 4.
Data collector sends data to any Analytics Services that have been set up when online. If offline instead the data is sent to the Event Log in Isolated Storage which then sends the data when the user is back online.Time code can be ambiguous. What’s important is the sequence (eg user went full screen at this point, user paused video at this point).
For all these companies this was their first Silverlight experience.Only one analytics company (not named but assumed to be Yahoo Analytics) that was approached by Microsoft didn’t want to get involved.If there’s a vendor you use not shown here please contact Michael Scherotter at Microsoft (Omniture had some kind of legal hold-up so contact Michael for help).