Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 발표

라스베가스에서 열린 MIX09 (2009.03.18~20)에서 Microsoft Silverlight 3 에 대한 발표가 있었습니다.
공식홈페이지에는 Silverlight 3 SDK는 물론 새로운 기능에 대한 튜토리얼 동영상까지 업데이트 되었군요.
과연 Silverlight 3에는 어떤 기능들이 추가되었는지 살펴 보도록 하겠습니다.

What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 : MIX09 (Thursday, March 19, 2009), Joe Stegman

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"What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3" 내용 요약 (아래 '더보기' 클릭)

Silverlight 3 Tooling

• Visual Studio 2008 tools for Beta and RTM
• Include improved XAP compression
• 10-30% decrease in XAP size
• Interactive designer
• In next Visual Studio release
• See Visual Studio 2010 session for details

• Expression Blend 3 preview today!
• Final release “later this year”

 

H.264/AAC/MP4

• Silverlight 3 supports H.264/AAC/MP4
• Industry standard format
• Hardware decoders on most devices
• YouTube, iPhone, Flash supported format
• Base format for QuickTime and iTunes
• Example: Silverlight plays .M4A

• Silverlight 3 H.264 vs. VC1
• DRM
• Windows Media Server

 

GPU Acceleration

• Opt-in feature on the Silverlight 3 plug-in
• Enables final surface draw with the GPU

• Opt-in feature per element
• Use GPU to blend/composite multiple elements
• Use GPU to stretch elements
• Example: Full screen media

• Works in-browser and in full-screen mode

 

Perspective 3D

• Put 2D objects in 3D space
• X,Y,Z rotation and X,Y,Z rotation point
• Support Local/Global X,Y and Z offsets

 

Animation Easing

• Added stock animation easing functions
• CircleEase, SineEase, and BackEase
• ExponentialEase, PowerEase
• QuadraticEase, CubicEase
• QuarticEase, QuinticEase
• ElasticEase, BounceEase

• Simplify creation of new easing functions

 

Effects and Pixel Shaders

• Effects
• Impact visual behavior (versus functional behavior)
• Silverlight 3 supports drop shadow and blur

• Silverlight 3 supports custom “effects”
• Custom “effects” are implemented as “shaders”
• Shaders typically authored using HLSL
• Compiled into byte code using a DX SDK utility
• Silverlight 3 consumes the byte codes
• Shaders allow developers to modify each pixel
  on a UI element before the pixel is rendered
• Shader = a per-pixel function or operation

 

Pixel APIs

• Two Parts
• Dynamic bitmap generation
• Read/Write pixels in a bitmap
• Render a visual tree (elements) to a bitmap

• Scenarios
• Dynamic image generation (e.g., RT graphs)
• Image editing and effects
• Clone visuals
• Examples: Reflections, drag effect

 

Raw Audio/Video APIs

• Similar to Pixel APIs but for audio/video
• Scenarios
• Dynamic sound generation
• Custom audio/video decoders

 

Local Messaging

• Cross plug-in Silverlight communication
• Multiple plug-ins on the same page
• Multiple plug-ins on different browser tabs
• Multiple plug-ins in different browsers

• Implementation
• Shared memory implementation
• Exposed like “named pipes”
• String based messages

 

UI Framework Improvements

• Merged resource dictionaries
• BasedOn styles
• Styles can be “cleared”(changed at runtime)
• Multi-select ListBox
• Listening to “handled” routed events
• New VSM “invalid” states
• Supported on TextBox, CheckBox, ComboBox, ListBox, RadioButton (post Mix: PasswordBox)

• More details: T16F (Karen Corby)

 

Other Improvements

• SystemColors
• SaveFileDialog
• Text Improvements
• ClearType Text (Post Beta)
• CaretBrush (Silverlight 2 Caret was black)
• Flag to optimize for animating text
• Glyphs support for system font

• Image refinements

 

New SDK Controls

• DockPanel
• Expander
• Label
• TreeView
• ViewBox
• WrapPanel
• ChildWindow
• DatePickerTextBox
• TabPanel
• +Others

 

Other Big Additions

• In the business talk
• Navigation framework
• Data control additions
• SEO support
• N-Tier data support
• See T40F (Brad Abrams)

• Web service stack improvements
• Binary XML, SOAP faults, credentials
• See T42F (Eugene Osovetsky)

• Silverlight toolkit release
• See T15F (Shawn Oster)

 

Silverlight “Out of the Browser”

• Silverlight runs “out of the browser” (sandboxed)
• Built into the core Silverlight runtime
• Enabled per “application”
• Manifest update

• User gesture to take “out of the browser”
• Right click
• Custom button in the application

• New networking APIs
• Connected, disconnected and changed state

• Offline APIs
• Launch state, update APIs
  

Get started with Silverlight 3 Beta (출처 :Silverlight 공식홈페이지)

Silverlight 3 SDK 및 Sample Code

- Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 SDK Beta 다운로드   - Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 다운로드   - Videos and Sample Code

Microsoft Silverlight가 RIA의 1인자가 될 날이 머지 않은 것 같습니다.
금번 업데이트 덕분에 포스팅 할 꺼리가 많아지네요. ㅎㅎ