Silverlight kid is here.......

Hi All,
I was never interested in coding but the moment my mentor Mr. Deepak Sharma asked me to learn silverlight, I fell in love with it. The first thing which I ever made in my life was a christmas card in silverlight 1.0, and fortunately everybody liked it. From then onwards there was no looking back.I continued to experiment with it. Silverlight has cast a spell on me and Tanmoy has always increased my interest in it .And now when Tanmoy asked me to contribute in this blog, I was thrilled.I would try to keep this spirit of silverlight alive in me and would try to enlighten others with the knowledge I acquire in this journey.
Thanks to Tanmoy!

Introducing Ramya...Another Silverlight Geek

Hi,
to make this blog more effective I requested Ramya to join this blog. She has started her programming career with Silverlight and proved excellence in a very short time. Its a great thing that from now we two will be reviewing our posts and can keep posting while the other one is busy. It will increase the quality and number of posts.

Silverlight rocks as she does.

Lets welcome her....

~Tanmoy

Silverlight 3 Wish List ---- What We Got

Hi all,

Silverlight 3 Beta is released. Now it does fulfill many of the features that the community has hoped for. Joe Stegman has marged the Silverlight 3 wish lists from different sources (Including the thread I have started) and put them in a table sorted on popularity. Lets check it with what we got. This is partial and please help me complete it and let me know in cases I am wrong.

Feature	Count	Comments	Status	Note
Web camera and/or microphone input	33	Includes requests for just microphone as well	No
Bitmap APIs	26	Support get/set pixels and/or rendering a XAML scene to a bitmap.	Partial. (After reading the comments and in forums and agree with it)	Check this application.
Full 3D	24	Full 3D support (full 3D models)	Partial	Video1 Video2
Printing	20	Printing APIs	No
Offline and/or out of browser support	16	Support running Silverlight when not online (or completely out of the browser)	Yes	Video
Bi-directional text and/or complex script	9		No
UDP/P2P	9	UDP APIs generally for Peer to Peer support	No
Rich text support	8	Editing and display	No
Right mouse button	8	Ability to configure the right click	No
Text quality	8	Improved text quality	Partial	Clear type will be supported
HTML Integration	7	Support HTML hosting (live HTML documents) and/or HTML translation	No
Interactive designer	7	Support an interactive designer in Visual Studio	No	Will be with VS 2010
Support more than BasicHttpBinding	7	Most common request is for WSHttpBinding	No
Improve Silverlight/WPF compatibility	6	Mostly feature requests for either Silverlight and/or WPF	Partial	Gap is reducing over time
More controls	6	Random/general requests	Yes	With the new toolkit release it increases.
SaveFileDialog	6		Yes
Data and/or property triggers	5		No
Reporting services	5		No
Synchronous web service calls	5		No	Is it really needed?
ADO.NET DataSet/DataTable	4		Partial	Check out new data controls and RIA services.
Alpha video	4	Chroma key support
Clipboard support	4		No	Some people think of it as security threat. Workaround
Drawing APIs (immediate mode)	4			Pixel effects?
Element name binding	4			Element to element binding is now possible.
Improved DataGrid	4	Several different requests
Local relational database (SQL)	4
Modal dialog	4
Mouse wheel	4	API and support in existing controls	No	Helper class available
Selectable text	4
Assembly caching	3	Want a framework for downloading/managing assemblies	Yes	Here.
Credentials/auth	3	Requests for networking stack and ASP.NET type integration
Custom markup extensions	3		No
Multi-target DLLs for .NET/SL	3	Build a business object DLL once for both .NET and Silverlight	No
Multi-touch support	3
Path Animation	3		No
Speech and better audio decoder	3
VisualBrush	3		No
9 Grid	2
Better keyboard APIs	2	Platform independent keycode
Better SEO	2		Yes	Check this blog.
Binding support to anonymous types	2
Direct database access	2	OLEDB/ODBC equivalent	No
Flow panel	2
GIF support	2		No	Probably it wont be there. See what Pete Brown says.
Global/dynamic styles (skinning)	2
Integrated CTRL+F (in page search)	2
Sound APIs (equalizer)	2	Includes looping	No
TileBrush (Image Tiling)	2		No
XPS Support	2
64-bit platform support	1
Android support	1
Better N-tier support	1	Improved data access	Yes	RIA Services
Better SharePoint integration	1
Block style text	1	Bulleted lists, paragraphs	No	But check this out
Cell based animation	1
CollectionView	1
Color management	1
Digital/XAP signing	1
Double Click event	1		No	work around
Drag and Drop	1	Between the desktop and Silverlight	No
Full 5.1 sound	1	Currently fold down to stereo	No
IDataErrorInfo	1
Inverse kinematics (bones)	1	Flash 10 feature
MediaTimeline	1
Multi-binding	1
Navigation model	1	Includes browser history integration	Yes	Video
Validation controls	1		Yes	Check this.
XPATH support for data binding	1

Thanks...