MIX09 starts today. And Silverlight 3 will be one of the highlights of the event. But why do we have a Silverlight 3 version already and what will it bring to the table for developers and consumers? Well, these are some of the features that will be a part of the new Silverlight.
- H.264 video support
- 3D support
- GPU hardware acceleration
- Pixel shaders
- Perspective 3D
- Animation enhancements
- Bitmap APIs
- improvements to the media stack
- Updates to the style model
- Data binding improvements
- Improved resource handling
- Improvements to the web services stack
- Some new additional controls
This is just a glimpse of some of the new features to look out for. Stay tuned to http://live.visitmix.com/ for coverage of MIX09, live from Las Vegas,which starts at 9 am PDT with keynotes from Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie.
