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...
2 comments:
Bitmap API support is only "partial" because you lose readability as soon as the bitmap has been "rendered" into. That means that you can do things like creating thumbnails, making games using direct pixel manipulation, but not others like red eye correction, uploading screen capture. This is a gaping hole, so this is only partial support.
Sorry, but the bitmap API most definitely isn't a "yes". I interpreted the bitmap API to mean a legitimate drawing API like we have with WPF. In any case, Silverlight 3 fell way short on both fronts. There's still time?
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