Silverlight Release Candidate due before end of July
Summary: Microsoft expects to deliver the near-final test release of verion 1.0 of its Silverlight alternative to Flash before July is over, according to a blog posting from a Microsoft technical evangelist. The final Silverlight 1.0 releae is due out later this summer.
Microsoft expects to deliver the near-final test release of its Silverlight alternative to Flash before July is over, according to a blog posting from a Microsoft technical evangelist.
Microsoft officially unveiled the beta of Silverlight 1.0 at its Mix '07 conference in April. The company also announced at that time the availability of an alpha of Silverlight 1.1, which adds a built-in Common Language Runtime engine, plus support for ASP.Net Ajax, Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), JavaScript, Visual Basic, C#, Python and Ruby. (No update so far on the status of Silverlight 1.1.)
Silverlight is a Web browser plug-in for playing media files and displaying interactive Web applications that was formerly codenamed "Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere," or WPF/E.
Tim Sneath, a Microsoft client platform technical evangelist, posted the update on Silverlight availability to his blog on July 13:
"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."
Sneath and his colleagues are talking about the release candidate now in order to help developers who've been working with the early code avoid some of the Silverlight changes that could break their pages, Sneath said.
Microsoft is making available for download a "special preview SDK (software development kit) release that will allow Silverlight developers to make sure their Silverlight objects work on both the March beta and the soon-to-be-released release candidate, Sneath added.
The final gold version of Silverlight 1.0 is due to ship this summer.
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nobody carres about silverlight
It's just an extra security hole!
Novel has already announced plans to provide silverlight support on linux
Right, MS buys Novel with hundreds of millions to create a crippled Linux
Huh? Of course its supported on Linux.
Right, I can hear the foot dragging and the excuses already.
Nothing stops you from improving Linux
But, the issue is that there is a lot stopping MS from supporting ANYTHING
really?
I think you were looking at some product that has nothing to do with software, like some bulb or something.
Your cluelessness is amazing.
He is just observing MS behavior. They need to make sure things are not
I have an idea...
Better yet, I think Donny boy has an extra air mattress in his momma's basement where he hangs out eating store brand Doritos and reading his collection of JC Penny's mens underwear catalogs. You could go over to his house and work on your ignorant posts together.
Now, doesn't that sound nice?
Well played ol' chap!
Will iPhone support it? n/t
No, afraid not.
Yes it WILL run on the iPhone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight#Silverlight_1.1
BUT...
Why anyone (or Mircosoft) thinks that we need another Flash is beyond me.
Sorry but no.
Licensing has nothing to do with it.
Yes, no and sort of.
Easier for .net people.
That's ironic.
Silverlight is perhaps significantly better than Flash Player and it gives choice to the end users? Could that be it? <br>
So why wouldn't anyone be interested in another player like this that is extremely lightweight, completely standards compliant and totally cross platform? <br>
I'll bet there are a lot of content providers that use Microsoft products right now who are eagerly awaiting Silverlight.