What's new in Silverlight 5
In this chapter, you'll learn:
What’s New in Silverlight 5 and tools to get started.
Download Silverlight 5 Tools
- Silverlight 5 Features
A document describing the features in Silverlight 5 release - All Silverlight Downloads
Silverlight 5 Release Overview
December 8, 2011|Level 200 : Novice
In this video, Pete provides an overview of the new and updated features in the release of Silverlight 5. Here's the related Silverlight 5 launch blog post on Pete's blog.
Introduction to Silverlight 5 3D
December 8, 2011|Level 200 : Novice
In this video, Pete provides the basics of 3d in Silverlight, showing how to create a project using the 3d template included with the Silverlight 5 Toolkit. In order to use the templates, in additi...
OpenType Text in Silverlight 5
December 8, 2011|Level 200 : Novice
Silverlight 5 provides excellent support for rendering OpenType fonts. Starting with this version, you can use advanced open type features such as ligatures, stylistic sets and contextual alternate...
Silverlight 5 Native Windows
April 12, 2011|Level 200 : Novice
Silverlight 5 trusted out-of-browser applications can now create native operating system windows. In this video, Pete Brown shows us how to create native windows as well as how to customize the chr...
Silverlight 5 Low-Latency Sound Effects
April 12, 2011|Level 200 : Novice
The MediaElement is powerful, but not well-suited to low-latency or real-time sound effects. Pete Brown shows us how to use the new SoundEffect and SoundEffectInstance classes from the XNA bits inc...
Silverlight 5 Multi-Column and Linked Text
April 12, 2011|Level 200 : Novice
Pete Brown shows us how to use the RichTextBoxOverflow to enable text to flow in columns or a free-form layout. Related Blog Post: http://10rem.net/blog/2011/04/13/silverlight-5-advancements-in-text
Silverlight 5 Mouse Button Double and Multi Click
April 12, 2011|Level 200 : Novice
Silverlight 5 now enables us to capture double click, or even an arbitrary number of clicks. Pete Brown shows us how to use the new ClickCount property for the mouse button events. Related Blog Pos...
