Silverlight 4 Out-of-Browser Application
 Silverlight 4 extends the out-of-browser capabilities pioneered in Silverlight 3 that allow a user’s Web presence to establish closer, more persistent relationships with customers without any additional runtime download or the need to write applications in a different way. With Trusted Silverlight applications, developers can now enable users to read and write files to their MyDocuments, MyMusic, MyPictures and MyVideos folder (or equivalent for non-Windows platforms) and COM automation enables access to devices and other system capabilities such as a USB security card reader.
Silverlight 4 HTML Support
 Place HTML within a rich Internet application, which enables tighter integration with content from Web servers such as e-mail, help and reports. In this image, the HTML brush being used to “paint” the Bing home page onto multiple jigsaw pieces. HTML controls such as buttons remain active when rendered in a Silverlight application.
Silverlight 4 Localization and Rich Text Features
 Localization enhancements include bidirectional text, right-to-left support and complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew and Thai, as well as 30 new languages.
Silverlight 4 Webcam, Microphone and Local Recording Features
 Webcam and microphone support allow developers to enable sharing of video and audio in their applications such as chat and customer service. Audio and video local recording capabilities allow the capture of RAW video without requiring server interaction, allowing new scenarios such as capturing voice or video to send in e-mail, or allowing the recording to be edited locally before saving.
 Silverlight 3 Perspective 3-D Feature: Silverlight 3 Beta allows developers and designers to apply content to a 3-D plane. Users can rotate or scale live content in space without writing any additional code. Other effects include creating a queue in 3-D and transitions.
 Silverlight 3 Bitmap API and Shader Effects: With Silverlight 3 Beta, users can now write pixels to a bitmap. Thus, they can build a photo editor to do red-eye correction, perform edits on scanned documents or create specials effects for cached bitmaps from elements on the screen. Shader effects include blur and drop shadow.
 Silverlight 3 Out of Browser Application: The new out-of-browser experience in Silverlight 3 Beta enables users to place their favorite Silverlight applications directly onto any PC or Mac desktop, start menu or application folder, without the need to download an additional runtime or browser plug-in. Further, the new experience enables Silverlight applications to work whether the computer is connected to the Internet or not – a radical improvement to the traditional Web experience.
 The Expression Blend interface maximizes the space for users’ work and includes features such as a dynamically filterable Properties panel to help users find what they're looking for instantly.
 SketchFlow helps designers, developers, information architects and account managers sketch, wireframe and prototype user experiences and user interfaces.
 With Expression Design, users can leverage existing artwork or use the intuitive and flexible drawing tools to quickly build sophisticated vector assets.
 The user interface in Expression Encoder gives designers, editors and producers the ability to generate rich media content wrapped in a Silverlight experience.
 Expression Web helps reduce complexity and ease data integration by using powerful design tools and task panes to design for ASP.NET, PHP and XML.
 Expression Blend opens the door to creating elegant and compelling user interface designs using a full spectrum of media types, including vector and pixel art, video, audio, text, 3D content, and animation.
 Leverage the full power of the desktop and Internet to provide your audience with big-impact, high-performance user experiences that drive brand recognition and repeat use.
 Work together in a friction-free environment, sharing projects, code, and designs for better productivity and quality. Quickly build stunning prototypes, and then turn them over to developers with confidence.
 Deliver applications that are more usable and achieve greater end-user satisfaction and productivity.
 Bring your existing vector-based artwork from other popular graphic tools into Expression Design along with bitmap JPEG, PNG, and GIF files. Then export in a wide variety of formats.
 With real time object formatting, stroke and font galleries, and an easy-to-use professional interface, you'll find yourself building awesome graphic assets in no time.
 Use Expression Design's powerful vector drawing and editing tools to explore new artistic possibilities and create compelling graphic designs and illustrations.
 Take advantage of Live Effects to apply high-quality effects and filters such as Bevel, Emboss, and Gaussian Blur to any vector or bitmapped object. Then change the effect or change the object with the confidence that Live Effects are always non-destructive.
 Generate elegant, modern CSS layouts with state-of-the-art surface design tools. Directly manipulate positioning, sizing, margins and padding.
 Build and format views of industry-standard XML data using drag-and drop tools for quick visualization. XML data can be retrieved and presented via live RSS feeds that match your site's formatting.
 Create CSS-based, XHTML 1.0 Transitional-conforming Web sites by default. Work better across browsers, simplifying deployment and maintenance.
 Harness the power of ASP.NET 2.0 to transform your sites into dynamic, interactive Web applications. No code data binding required with integrated support for server and user controls.
 Kelley Blue Book: In less than two months a single developer built the Perfect Car Finder: Photo Edition for kbb.com, an experience that takes advantage of rich controls, superior data access capabilities, and cutting-edge features such as Deep Zoom in Silverlight. This Silverlight-enabled experience allows users of kbb.com to interact with the images of many cars at once and adjust characteristics such as price, body style, and mileage to find the car they want.
 ISC Technology Inc. uses Microsoft Expression Blend and Microsoft Silverlight together with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition when building projects. This new approach to building software, like the application depicted above, has resulted in improved collaboration between designers and developers, an earlier focus on the user experience, more customer-friendly solutions, and faster development times — all of which have helped ISC’s new Interactive Design group become profitable in only two months.
 K2 recently announced the release of K2 blackpoint, a solution that enables users to visually build workflow applications within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The K2 blackpoint Web designer uses Microsoft Silverlight, enabling business users to easily create workflows in SharePoint.
 Since its launch in September 2007, Microsoft’s corporate Web site has delivered more than 200 Silverlight-based campaigns as well as applications such as video, navigational options, widgets, gadgets and upcoming display advertising – some of which uses the innovative Deep Zoom feature in Silverlight.
 MSN Entertainment is using Silverlight to make the “fun part of MSN” even better by taking some of its already popular content, such as celebrity photos, and creating new, engaging, interactive experiences that help MSN differentiate itself in the crowded entertainment business. With more than 20 million monthly users, MSN Entertainment represents MSN’s most popular owned-and-operated online destination.
 MSN Entertainment is using Silverlight to make the “fun part of MSN” even better by taking some of its already popular content, such as celebrity photos, and creating new, engaging, interactive experiences that help MSN differentiate itself in the crowded entertainment business. With more than 20 million monthly users, MSN Entertainment represents MSN’s most popular owned-and-operated online destination.
 MSN Entertainment is using Silverlight to make the “fun part of MSN” even better by taking some of its already popular content, such as celebrity photos, and creating new, engaging, interactive experiences that help MSN differentiate itself in the crowded entertainment business. With more than 20 million monthly users, MSN Entertainment represents MSN’s most popular owned-and-operated online destination.
 Netflix Inc. recently chose Silverlight to power its Watch Instantly online service, which provides Netflix customers with the ability to watch movies instantly on their PC or Mac via Silverlight. With Silverlight, Netflix members enjoy a faster, easier connection and a more robust viewing experience due to the high video quality built directly into the player.
 Microsoft Virtual Earth, an integrated set of services that provides high-quality geospatial data and rich, engaging location-based applications, uses Silverlight to provide customers with an unsurpassed platform for seamless, interactive, Web-based mapping. Virtual Earth provides Geographic Information System customers with a total view across their organization’s spatial data.
 Microsoft Virtual Earth, an integrated set of services that provides high-quality geospatial data and rich, engaging location-based applications, uses Silverlight to provide customers with an unsurpassed platform for seamless, interactive, Web-based mapping. Virtual Earth provides Geographic Information System customers with a total view across their organization’s spatial data.
 Microsoft Virtual Earth, an integrated set of services that provides high-quality geospatial data and rich, engaging location-based applications, uses Silverlight to provide customers with an unsurpassed platform for seamless, interactive, Web-based mapping. Virtual Earth provides Geographic Information System customers with a total view across their organization’s spatial data.
 CBSSports.com, in partnership with CBS Sports and the NCAA, chose Microsoft Silverlight to stream live and on-demand video coverage of the two-week 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball March Madness Tournament, providing viewers enhanced video action and the ultimate tournament experience.
 The Microsoft Silverlight-powered streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics on NBCOlympics.com on MSN proved to be the online event of the year, with 75.5 million video streams and 9.9 million hours of video consumed — an equivalent of 1,126 years of video.
 CBS College Sports Network decided to switch its streaming video platform to Microsoft Silverlight to help stream its more than 20,000 hours of live content annually for its 150-plus college and university official athletic partners.
 Microsoft Silverlight delivered the Democratic National Committee Convention, allowing people to experience politics online like never before.
 France Televisions Interactive used Silverlight to build a video portal on the Internet that provides access to all the news clips produced by all France Televisions channels, including local channels, representing 25 hours of fresh video content per day with 110 daily television news shows (national and regional shows).
 Hard Rock International Inc. built its Hard Rock Memorabilia Web site using Microsoft Silverlight, leveraging the Deep Zoom feature of the plug-in to allow visitors to smoothly zoom in from the entire rock collection of memorabilia down to an incredible level of detail.
 Tafiti is a front end to Live Search created using Silverlight. By harnessing the rich interactivity that Silverlight offers, Tafiti enables you to easily see your Web, news, image and RSS search results, filter them, save them and visualize them as leaves on a tree.
 Watch previews of popular Discovery Channel Asia shows including “American Chopper” and “Mythbusters.”
 Want to know where candidates for the 2008 U.S. presidential election stand on key issues? Explore the candidates and the issues through this innovative Silverlight experience.
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