Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Silverlight 4.0

Silverlight 4.0 promises to reset the bar for interactive, web-based applications. When released, developers should expect all of the following additions and improvements and more:

• A more complete, deeper set of controls to help build even richer, data-bound applications. This includes a RichTextbox control, masked edit controls, and enhanced DataGrid control.

• The ability to compile your Silverlight application and run it, without changes, as a standalone application on a desktop or deployed through a browser.

• Functionality for printing inside the Silverlight application.

• Additional support for Visual Studio including drag and drop data-binding.

• Support for the managed extensibility framework (MEF) when building composite ...