Posted by Silverlight Team on Mar 8, 2010 in
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View Original Article With only one week until MIX10, we wanted to give you a heads-up on all the news coming out of the conference, and highlight some of the great Silverlight sessions that every developer should attend. For those of you that don’t know, MIX is Microsoft’s annual Web development and design conference, held March 15 – 17 at the Mandalay Hotel in Las Vegas, which explores the art and science of creating great user experiences and rich Web applications. You can expect that Silverlight will be a major part of this year’s event, so even if you’re not able to attend in person, we’ll share how you can be a part of the MIX experience here.
Keynote
As you may have already seen, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division, (and known in most Microsoft developer circles as “The Gu”) will deliver the Day 1 keynote address on March 15, along with Bill Buxton, principal researcher for Microsoft Research, and Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Windows Phone Program Management. Scott recently joined the Microsoft Channel 9 crew to discuss how he prepares for his keynotes, what he plans on talking about this year and why MIX is his favorite Microsoft conference. Check out the 10 minute interview on Channel 9 and be sure to visit the MIX Virtual Pressroom on Monday, March 15 and Tuesday, March 16 to see a live or on-demand stream of the keynotes.
Sessions
There are a number of must-attend sessions including a half-day Silverlight 4 boot camp with Silverlight guru’s Mike Taulty and John Papa. The session aims to equip developers with the skills necessary to build compelling and powerful Silverlight 4 applications. Additionally, attendees will be among the first to learn how to build applications and games for the recently announced Windows Phone 7 Series. Be sure to keep an eye out for a dedicated session track on the Windows Phone 7 Series platform that will run throughout the conference. Finally, we’ll cover off on how to use Expression Blend SketchFlow to prototype Silverlight 4 applications. Since its release with Silverlight 3 last July, SketchFlow has evolved into a game-changing feature that drastically improves the designer/developer workflow. For more information on Silverlight sessions at MIX, check out the top 10 list below, and visit Channel 9 after the conference for recordings of select sessions.
Resources
If you can’t make it to Vegas this year, be sure to watch this blog for the latest Silverlight news from MIX. Also, check out the MIX Virtual Pressroom next Monday and Tuesday to watch a live stream of the keynotes and receive the most up to date press materials from the conference. Finally, be sure to keep an eye out for Channel 9 Live’s exclusive onsite interviews and Q&A sessions with Scott Guthrie, Bill Buxton and Joe Belfiore, and follow the #MIX10 Twitter hashtag to keep a real time pulse on the show. See you - whether in-person or virtually - at MIX10!
MIX Top 10 Silverlight Session List (see the MIX website for a full session list)
Silverlight 4 Boot Camp
Mike Taulty, John Papa
In this half-day workshop, you’ll learn the skills necessary to create powerful Silverlight 4 applications.
Windows Phone Application and Game Development
More to come at MIX!
Silverlight 4 Overview – What’s in Store for Silverlight 4?
Keith Smith
Are you looking for ways to build seamless, rich Web experiences and easy-to-deploy line of business applications? If so, come see an overview of the new features and updates in the upcoming release of Silverlight 4.
Silverlight 4 Business Applications
Scott Morrison
Continuing the overview of Silverlight 4, this session focuses on new business-oriented features including importing/exporting data, printing, data visualization, WCF RIA Services and design-time enhancements in Visual Studio 2010.
Prototyping Rich Microsoft Silverlight 4 Applications with Expression SketchFlow
See how to use SketchFlow to collaboratively design, evolve, explore and review user experiences and interactive content.
Stepping Outside the Browser with Silverlight 4
Ashish Shetty
Come find out about the new Silverlight 4 out of browser features and see some of the amazing things you can do.
Developing Multiplayer Games with Silverlight 4
Grant Skinner
Hear about all aspects of game development including path-finding, physics, artwork, peer-to-peer networking, performance optimization, and more.
Silverlight and Windows Azure: A Match Made for the Web
Matt Kerner
By combining the rich user experience with Silverlight with the flexibility and scalability of Windows Azure compute and storage, you can build some incredible end-to-end Web applications.
Building Rich and Interactive User Experiences in SharePoint
Andre Engberts
Come hear how SharePoint offers many ways to build rich and personalized interactions using its user interface framework.
Web Deployment Made Awesome: If You’re Using XCopy, You’re Doing it Wrong
Scott Hanselman
Come see a practical session on the new deployment goodness in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Mar 3, 2010 in
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View Original Article Major updates to the Project Rosetta site shipped today, including a new a series of Flash to Silverlight tutorials, an updated API Guide with a quick reference list and a full list of recommended tools, code samples and frameworks to download.
Access these new resources via the links provided below:
Getting Started Series: 
API Guide:
This is just the beginning! Keep checking back for new tutorials in the Getting Started series, along with a brand new series of tutorials that go deeper into a single topic.
To keep track of the latest Project Rosetta content and other similar tutorials Follow us on Twitter or get updates via our RSS Feed.
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Mar 3, 2010 in
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View Original Article Digital Rapids – a leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences – has unveiled a powerful new version of the Stream software for the company’s award-winning StreamZ™, StreamZHD™ and DRC-Stream™ encoding and live streaming systems, with significant enhancements for IIS Smooth Streaming.
Providing adaptive bit rate delivery, IIS Smooth Streaming seamlessly switches between multiple streams at different bit rates to deliver consistent viewing experiences up to high definition quality, even under changing playback conditions. 
Performance optimizations in Stream 3.2 significantly increase the number of streams that can be simultaneously created at varying resolutions and bitrates in a single encoding system – seven or more concurrent VC-1 IIS Smooth Streaming outputs including full 1280x720 resolution on the latest StreamZHD systems, and even higher concurrent stream counts or resolutions up to 1920x1080 in the H.264 format. Support for IIS Live Smooth Streaming in the H.264 compression format complements the Stream software’s existing on-demand H.264 and live and file-based VC-1 IIS Smooth Streaming.
Stream 3.2 also incorporates Silverlight DRM, powered by PlayReady, content access technology for the protection of IIS Smooth Streaming media, ensuring that high-value content is used only as specified by the content owner and only by authorized users. Stream 3.2 includes direct support for a number of third-party Silverligth DRM service providers, while open Web Services access through Stream 3.2’s Silverlight DRM interface enables fast integration with additional third-party license providers, speeding time to market for new secure services.
Read the full press release: www.digital-rapids.com/news/press%20releases/2010stream32.aspx
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Feb 26, 2010 in
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View Original Article NOS, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, the Dutch public broadcaster, has published great data about their Olympic game site on the influencing marketing blog, Marketingfacts.nl
The following text is a translation from Dutch to English of the article from this site:
Olympic Games of Vancouver 2010 are almost done. The Dutch medal score is 6, after a successful gold medal by Sven Kramer (and yes, what a disaster on the 10 km), silver and bronze for Gerritsen and Van Riessen, the Gold for Mark Tuitert and Ireen Wüst and the bronze for Bob de Jong.
The team at the NOS, responsible for new media offerings, has been very busy. All systems needed to perform at maximum performance and there was no room for failures. A lot of people expected that, because of the time difference, the morning after the races would be busy. And they proved to be right.
The day after the gold medal of Sven Kramer on the 5,000 meter it was very busy on the on-demand platform. More than 337,000 unique visitors have viewed more than 760,000 videos. The 3,000 meter race for women attracted a lot of people. In total 283,000 streams where started. The day after the great race of Mark Tuitert, 1.1 million videos where viewed thru the Olympic site of the NOS. On the most popular day, after the faulty race of Sven, the site reached to 447,000 unique visitors.
In total the site realized more than 29,6 million page views. Live streams almost reached 3.8 million starts. And the other videos where requested more than 5.3 million times. Since the opening of the Olympic games more than 2.3 million unique visitors visited the special site (source: sitestat, Feb 12 -25). Most popular on demand videos are:
- The crash of Koemaritasjvili
- The 1,500 meter for men (RE:skating)
- The 1,500 meter for women (RE:skating)
- The great 1,500 meter of Mark Tuitert
- The faulty race of Sven Kramer
The site uses geoblocking as required by the IOC, so only Dutch viewers have been able to see the videos. To put the numbers in perspective the second most popular video online, reached 1.7 million people on TV (Source: kijkonderzoek.nl (TV viewing stats)
These numbers hold a big promise for the second big sports event of this year: the World Cup Soccer in South Africa. In 2008 the Euro Cup Soccer website attracted almost 1.3 million unique visitors. In one month’s time 3.8 million live streams where requested and 15 million pages where viewed. This was the first time that the NOS used the Internet for broadcasting a big soccer event. (Source STIR, June 2008)
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Feb 18, 2010 in
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View Original Article We’ve talked about the great new features of the Vancouver Olympics Silverlight based video and photo viewers, talked about the all of the content available in full HD quality, and talked about how Silverlight is being used in innovative ways to help content owners monetize their content at higher levels than ever before. Now we’d like to spend some time focusing on the partners that have been working on building this solution.
Each of the partners involved fills an important role in the overall solution. The descriptions below provide insight into how each of the partners contributed to the solution and their capabilities that make them perfectly suited for this type of project.
Akamai (http://www.akamai.com)
Akamai’s HD Network is delivering live and on-demand Olympic video to global broadcasters for the duration of the Games
· The Akamai HD Network is Akamai’s next generation video delivering offering, which provides both live and on demand streaming to broadcast-sized audiences with personalized and interaction online experience consistent with HD television.
· Akamai’s HD Network distribution platform, combined with the Silverlight player, gives viewers the tools needed to have the best viewing experience, such as DVR controls, interactivity, optional camera angles and personalization controls.
· The Silverlight player, leveraging adaptive bit rate streaming, adjusts the quality of the video to a viewer’s Internet conditions to ensure the highest quality experience possible is being delivered.
· A perfect fit for delivering the global online element of the 2010 Olympic Games, the Akamai HD Network is designed and optimized to enable large-scale broadcasters to increase audience engagement and expand revenues by complementing traditional mediums such as TV and DVD with the Internet.
Conviva (http://www.conviva.com)
As with any Olympics, the Vancouver Winter Games are full of late-breaking excitement. But when it comes to streaming, unwanted surprises can impact the integrity of online video delivery. To guard against the element of surprise successfully, Conviva’s high-quality video control platform starts with real-time audience instrumentation and then leverages multi-bit rate policies and mid-stream switching to eliminate the causes of choppy video. Leveraging instantaneous insights, Conviva also helps provide Microsoft with a window into what every viewer is watching when they are watching it.
DeltaTre (http://www.deltatre.com)
For the Vancouver Olympics Solution, deltatre not only provided much of the metadata, results, schedule information, etc, but they also acted as the systems integrator that pulled together many of the components into a working solution.
· deltatre built Web sites for NBC Olympics and Canadian TV (CTV) – deep knowledge of the sports enable them to treat each individual sport with “Olympic” quality.
· deltatre did a deep integration with live schedule, results and statistics of all sports – terrific complement to TV coverage, in that fans have access to a depth of information never before available.
· deltatre integrated video with schedule and results – enable users to have a fantastic user experience as they navigate the service. Very user friendly.
· deltatre created a white label service so that broadcasters can focus on their core service and leave much of the difficult, one-off work to deltatre, thereby creating a service with greater quality and far more features, yet at a lower cost than if they had built on their own.
· deltatre took advantage of the latest and greatest Silverlight technology for building these services, so that consumers can have a great Olympic experience.
Inlet (http://www.inlethd.com)
Inlet provides the encoding solution that is used by iStreamPlanet to encode the Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS) feeds coming out of Vancouver. More details on Inlet’s contribution:
· Inlet’s Spinnaker family of encoding solutions is uniquely suited for live sports as it provides broadcast-quality streams over the Internet to multiple screens and devices.
· With its built-in support for adaptive streaming protocols, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, Spinnaker generates high-quality streams that enhance online viewing of live sports action.
· Spinnaker will provide high-definition (HD) streams in real time at resolutions up to 720p.
· Spinnaker also will enable Olympic Winter Games fans to easily switch between multiple events or camera angles.
iStreamPlanet (http://www.istreamplanet.com)
iStreamPlanet is responsible for the content ingest, encoding, and origin server hosting. They provide:
· IP and Satellite Transit and Encoding Services. Receiving the 23 NBC feeds over the IP from Vancouver and 5 CTV feeds via Satellite and encoding them in IIS Smooth Streaming.
· Webcast Operations Facility (WOC). iStreamPlanet currently has the capability to acquire, encode and monitor up to 30 simultaneous HD feeds from our WOC in Las Vegas, Nevada.
· Video Workflow Automation Services. iStreamPlanet has enabled via API access the ability to acquire content, route video, automate control over all publishing points, provisioning and starting/stopping encoders, failover and redundancy, live-to-video on-demand transitioning and resource management based on availability.
· Origin including Origin Telemetry. Fully redundant, cloud based content origination services optimized for the IIS Smooth Streaming and coupled with a real-time performance monitoring, maintenance and health-checks of the Origin resources for optimized and scalable Origin.
PreEmptive Solutions (http://www.preemptive.com)
PreEmptive Solutions make Dotfuscator, the application protection and monitoring tool. For the Vancouver Olympics solution , Dotfuscator both protected and optimized the final Silverlight components. One Silverlight-specific feature worth noting is that Dotfuscator can accept and output XAP files (instead of low level DLLs that force developers to manually edit XAP files) – this shortened and simplified the release process – critical for an event like the Olympics. For more information on their monitoring and analytic capabilities, here is an excerpt from the Jason Zander’s TechEd EMEA 2009 keynote– all of these capabilities work with Silverlight too.
Vertigo (http://www.vertigo.com)
Vertigo built the Silverlight-based video player and photo viewer, playing the video streams coming from iStreamPlanet and Akamai, while integrating the data streams and displaying the photos coming from deltatre. Viewers are now able to watch HD streaming video in real-time or on-demand, zoom in and out of photos and interact with the content through integration with social media. The video player code was secured using PreEmptive Solution’s Dotfuscator and had code built in to enable Conviva monitoring. Vertigo’s custom player is the culmination of all of the other partners’ contributions resulting in:
- HD-quality Video. Hundreds of hours of live HD content, streaming at full 720p. Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming technology enables the player to automatically adjust video quality to match each user’s bandwidth.
- DVR-style Features. Experience the Olympics as if you were watching at home on your DVR! A simple interface allows for multiple viewing options, including slow motion, fast-forward, and rewind.
- Rich Data Integration. Get the most information about a key event or moment with the interactive timeline. Rich data overlays and visualizations provide the user with the ultimate detail – a truly compelling web experience!
- Social Media Integration. Video player integration with Twitter to allow the NBC audience to connect online.
With Vertigo’s Deep Zoom Photo Viewer, users can explore thousands of photos from the Vancouver Winter Olympics via the enhanced photo gallery. Dynamic interaction and simple controls allow users to move through galleries of photos easily and effortlessly. An immersive photo gallery experience allows users to take control of the image perspective and discover the image detail. Slideshow and Grid perspectives provide seamless transition between distinct viewing modes.
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Feb 18, 2010 in
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Exciting news for those of you living in Europe. Eurosport, one Europe’s premier sports broadcasting networks, is delivering the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games to thousands of web viewers across 39 countries. Eurosport subscribers can enjoy a stunning high definition experience on the web and catch all of the action from Vancouver live and on-demand.
If you live in France, you’re in for an even bigger treat. France Télévisions is also streaming the Olympics and delivering a stunning high definition experience using the Silverlight Media Framework player, which provides enhanced features such as slow motion and instant replay.
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Feb 17, 2010 in
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February 14th marked the beginning of the Chinese Year of the Tiger. In commemoration, Flora and Fauna International (FFI), one of the world’s oldest conservation societies, partnered with Shoothill, one of our key Silverlight developers in the UK, to develop this Silverlight Deep Zoom Mosaic of a Sumatran tiger. The mosaic is constructed of 180,000 images of all endangered species on the planet. Click and roll your mouse to zoom in or move around the images easily, or use the tool bar.
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Feb 15, 2010 in
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View Original Article Friday night kicked off the opening ceremonies of the XXI Games of the Winter Olympiad in Vancouver, British Columbia. This has ushered in a new era of internet based video experiences using Silverlight and IIS Smooth Streaming that will give viewers unparalleled video quality and interactivity, as well as breaking ground in monetization opportunities for broadcasters.
It was just four short years ago at the last Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy where U.S. audiences saw the first live video streaming with NBC’s online coverage of the men’s gold medal hockey game. Two years later at the Beijing Summer Olympics the amount of content that NBC made available grew exponentially to 4,400 hours of on-demand streaming and 2,200 hours of live programming. Now less than two years after Beijing the focus shifts from the amount of content available to how viewers interact with the content and the richness of the experience.
For online viewers of the Vancouver Olympics on NBCOlympics.com, there are a ton of great new features that will be sure to keep viewers engaged. The content itself will be streamed in up to full HD 720p quality using our IIS Smooth Streaming technology, which provides the highest quality video to each viewer based on their individual network, CPU, and other conditions. When coupled with the Microsoft Silverlight-based player, IIS Smooth Streaming provides amazing DVR-like functionality. For example, viewers have the ability to start watching live events even after they have begun, but they can rewind the video to points earlier than where they started watching, even all the way back to the beginning. In addition to the being able to pause a live event, viewers will also have variable speed fast-forward and rewind functionality, instant replay, and slow motion for reviewing events that happen quickly.
Outside of the “trick play” modes like slow motion, one of the hottest things that the new Vancouver Olympics Silverlight player will have is integration and synchronization of play-by-play information right into the player’s timeline. For example, if you start watching a hockey game well into the first period, you’ll be able to review the play-by-play history right in the player and see significant events, like a goal having been scored, notated right on the player timeline. Clicking on either the play-by-play description or the timeline marker will cause the video to seek right to that event.
We’ve also made it easier for viewers to explore content related to what they’re currently watching. For example, if you’re watching a video that shows Apolo Ohno you can quickly explore a list of all available videos that feature Apolo Ohno. Viewers can also easily explore videos by various categories like most popular, featured, by sport, by athlete, etc.
On the business side of things, a number of enhancements have been made in order to help broadcasters generate more revenue. For example, broadcasters will now have the ability to insert advertisements during breaks in the action instead of only at the beginning of the viewing experience as was the case for the Beijing coverage. Additionally, highlight clips are one of the most popular forms of video content, so we’ve provided the broadcasters with a Silverlight based rough cut editor that gives them the ability to quickly generate and post highlight clips to the broadcaster’s website. The photo viewer mentioned above also provides more fluid mechanisms for advertisements to be shown to viewers which lead to higher revenues.
There is also a Silverlight based photo viewer that lets viewers explore collections of images very easily and also lets them zoom into pictures using Silverlight’s DeepZoom functionality to get higher levels of detail.
It would not have been possible to put an event like the Olympics online without the help of many partner companies. We’ve been working on the implementation of this project for nearly a year now and the results are a testament to the hard work, dedication, and vision of all of the people involved. Akamai, Conviva, Deltratre, Inlet, iStreamPlanet, PreEmptive Solutions and Vertigo all played a role in bringing the Games to the Web seamlessly. With an event as important as the Olympics, it’s great to have partners like these.
One such key partner, iStreamPlanet, has been immersed in rigorous testing and preparation, and is ready to do its part in the Winter Olympics videocast. iStreamPlanet will be handling the video feeds coming in over IP and satellite as well as the encoding, which will all be done in IIS Smooth Streaming. There are 23 NBC feeds coming in via IP from Vancouver and 5 CTV feeds coming in over satellite. iStreamPlanet’s Webcast Operation Center has the capability to acquire, encode and monitor up to 30 simultaneous HD feeds. The ability to handle so many simultaneous feeds was a requirement for such a large scale event.
iStreamPlanet’s entire process is automated. This includes not just the content acquisition and encoding but also video routing, failover and redundancy, live-to-video on-demand transitioning and resource management. The company also collaborated with Switch Communications, Intel, Arista Networks and Juniper Networks to handle the Origin from their Las Vegas facilities. The result is a fully redundant, cloud-based content origination service coupled with real-time performance monitoring, maintenance and health-checks of the Origin resources. This high-performance Origin system provides content that is both optimized for IIS Smooth Streaming and extremely scalable and robust – an absolute must for a high-demand event like the Winter Olympics, where millions of end users are expected to view content live and on-demand.
Putting an event as large and important as the Vancouver Olympics online is a can be a daunting task, but with the expertise and coordination of partners like iStreamPlanet, we have brought it to life. Check out the exciting Vancouver Olympics coverage in the United States at: http://www.nbcolympics.com/
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Feb 4, 2010 in
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January 2010 saw the launch the new Mass Effect 2 game, and EA Games in the UK wanted to mirror the game innovation with their digital marketing.
Developing the world’s first interactive Silverlight banner to be ad-served on the MSN platform was an ideal way to meet this objective.
Microsoft Advertising and Mediacom, in partnership with digital agency Metia, accepted the challenge and embarked on the quest to find an ad-serving partner. Although all ad serving companies claimed to have the ability to serve Silverlight banners, it quickly became apparent that none could do this with interactive and expandable units. Suddenly the brief got more complicated, which was made easier when Metia found partner Ad: Dynamo and provided them support to enhance their ad-serving capabilities.
So all parties were ready to focus on the solution. EA Games collated as many assets as possible to help drive the creative process as the end result had to be engaging and interactive creating the ultimate experience for a rich-media hungry audience. The key metric was engagement and everyone was keen to steer clear of a direct comparison of Silverlight vs. Flash. Therefore Metia used Silverlight’s key features and benefits to maximum effect and focused on its Deep Zoom and Smooth Streaming capabilities.
The great thing with the gaming industry is that buckets of content are developed by the studios to support the game launch, which is why it was a perfect product to showcase these features. Once traditional scamps and wireframes were created, a non-functioning version of the banner was developed, using Blend 3.
When this was in place, it was time to split the development and interactive design tasks. The project was set up in Visual Studio 2008 and project version control was defined using Team Foundation Server. This allowed the Developers to create a fully functioning version of the user interface, while simultaneously the Interactive Designers could work on the media, design and copy using Blend 3, Deep Zoom Composer and Encoder 3. Adopting this process and software meant that the core development (including ad-serving enhancements) and interactive design was completed in just a few weeks.
When you look at the visually stunning results, it’s hard to imagine the work was done in this timeframe. And the best part is that due to the content being driven by XML and the reusable nature of the UI components in Blend 3, this can easily be re-skinned in a fraction of this time.
With brands now questioning the role of the microsite, perhaps this is a suitable new approach to take?
While the ad is running you can check it out here.
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Jan 27, 2010 in
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Telerik Corporation, a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM, .NET CMS solutions and Web Application Testing Tools, is excited to announce RadControls for Silverlight 4 CTP. RadControls for Silverlight 4 CTP is the first UI components suite to natively support Microsoft Silverlight 4 beta and to provide support for the right-click feature introduced with the latest Silverlight release.
RadControls helps to ensure that developers can use RadControls for Silverlight 4 with the latest Silverlight version and start building their applications today. With the Silverlight 4 Beta release, Microsoft announced support for conventional desktop interaction models through new features such as right-click context menu. RadControls for Silverlight 4 benefit from this new addition allowing developers to use RadContextMenu without enabling windowless mode.
RadControls for Silverlight 4 features 38 advanced high-performing UI components loaded with features such as Silverlight Grid, fully customizable Silverlight Charts and Gauges, and Map and Scheduler components to help provide developers with a powerful toolset for building line-of-business Silverlight applications. The controls are engineered for outstanding performance by utilizing streamlined themes and templates, as well as incorporating virtualized scrolling in the more data-centric controls. Furthermore Telerik RadControls for Silverlight ships with several major themes, among which Windows 7 and Vista, helping developers to deliver a consistent look-and-feel throughout their applications.
For more information follow these links:
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