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• Silverlight 1.0 - New Maintenance Release Available

  We released a minor maintenance update to Silverlight 1.0 over the weekend (internally known as GDR3 , where GDR stands for "General Distribution Release"). I'm sure most readers of this blog already have Silverlight 2 Beta 1 installed on their own machines, but if you're building a site for the tens of millions of users that already have Silverlight installed on their machine, you'll be pleased to know that we're continuing to service the 1.0 release to take account of customer-reported issues. The latest release is live now on the web for both Mac and PC ; it reports itself as 1.0.30401.0 (where the build number indicates that it was compiled on April 1st). The changes are minor in nature and shouldn't affect existing applications; they include an audio bug fix for nForce 4 motherboards , an update to support custom parameters in ASX playlists , fixes to font support on Mac OS X Leopard and improved multi-language support during installation and update. As ever, the way to check Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 10:08 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: silverlight, changes

• Silverlight 1.1 is Now Silverlight 2.0

  It's been gratifying to see how much excitement there is out there about Silverlight. We've barely started the engines yet, but we've already had a number of big sites launch their first Silverlight experiences, and of course plenty of stuff underway that we'll be revealing over the coming months. Many .NET developers are naturally interested in the next release, which is when we'll introduce support for C# and Visual Basic development based on the .NET Framework. Although we haven't released any new major updates to the alpha developer preview of this functionality since MIX07, we're opening the kimono a little today to provide a bit more transparency in our schedule. Firstly, we're announcing today that we're renaming Silverlight 1.1 to Silverlight 2.0 . As we've been building out the feature set for Silverlight v.Next, it's been becoming increasingly clear that this is a big release. Adding together the Common Language Runtime, Base Class Libraries, Dynamic Language Runtime, the UI Frameworks, Read More... Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:51 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, silverlight, RIA, changes, silverlight 2.0, mix08

• Silverlight RC2 On The Way - We're Getting CLose!

  As we close down on the release, we're actually pushing out an update to the Silverlight RC build in the next couple of hours. The update is Sunday night's drop - build 20730 (the last release was 20724), and I'm going to informally dub it "RC2" for ease of reference. This is one of a few critical updates that we'll be pushing down over the next couple of weeks to test the update mechanism. If you've set your update options to prompt on install, you'll see a dialog very like the following when you next visit a page that contains Silverlight functionality: All updates will require a restart at some time to take advantage of the functionality changes. All prompted updates can be “postponed” by not restarting the process until you are ready; when you next restart the browser or open a new window, you'll see the updated version (you can right click on any Silverlight content and choose "Silverlight Configuration" to see which build is actually running). There's no additional work required to Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:09 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: silverlight, changes

• Preparing for Silverlight 1.0 RC and Beyond

  In just a couple of weeks, we'll be ready to publish the Release Candidate of Silverlight 1.0 to the web. We're in the final stages of stabilization as we close in on launch; fixing the last few bugs, doing detailed security penetration testing work, resolving any remaining inconsistencies and completing the last fit and finish work. As Joe Stegman intimates in his recent blog posting , there are a few breaking changes between the beta and release candidate. Moving forward, the API is stable: there should be no further breaking changes between the release candidate and the final release. If you've already released a Silverlight application today based on the beta, we wanted to give you some advanced warning and ability to prepare for the RC so that your page isn't broken when the release candidate comes out. To that end, we've prepared a special preview SDK release that contains the following items: A new silverlight.js file that detects both the beta and the RC version; A breaking changes Read More... Posted Friday, July 13, 2007 6:53 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: compatibility, silverlight, prepare, changes