There are tons of cool stuffs for Silverlight 4 that are being shown in Day 2 keynote
of PDC ‘09 and in the SL4 overview talk by Karen
Corby. I am amazed at the speed in which the Silverlight team in Microsoft has
been able to churn out releases at rapid pace – SL 1 in Nov ‘07, SL 2 in Oct ‘08,
SL 3 in Jun ‘09 and SL 4 Beta in Oct ‘09.
The main features of Silverlight
4 that caught my attention are:
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Access to Webcam, Microphone and other devices like Digital Camera
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Print Preview and direct Print support
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UDP Multicast, very useful for organization wide network distribution of live video
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Authorization support in client HTTP Stack (NTLM, Basic and Digest)
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Same .NET compiled code runs in SL 4 and .NET 4
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Offline DRM play support
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Drag/Drop, Clipboard support
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Audio and video local recording capabilities capture RAW video without requiring server
interaction
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Embed a HTML control including a Flash control inside that HTML, all usable from Brush
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Styles support
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RichtextArea control and better internalization text support
Read the complete post at http://venkatarangan.com/blog/2009/11/18/Microsoft+Silverlight+4.aspx