Some More New Features in Silverlight 3 Announced at #Mix09

March 18th, 2009 by jason Leave a reply »

Scott Gu and Co. have announced a few more items that are, well, kick ass.

  • A new data tier technology that will allow developers to write data services, decorate those services with a client attribute, and your Silverlight project will automatically generate proxies for those data services.  This eliminates a lot of custom code I have written to do my WCF plumbing.
  • Silverlight on the desktop on Mac and Windows!  Its pretty obvious they are going after Adobe Air here.  This gives Windows developers and easy-in to Mac desktop development.
  • A Silverlight developer plugin for Eclipse on Windows and Mac.
  • Blend 3 can import from Photoshop.  It provides granular control over importing layers from the Photoshop document.  Very nice!
  • Blend 3, in general, looks like a huge improvement over Blend 2.
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