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Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie has just announced Silverlight 5 a few seconds ago during his Silverlight Firestarter keynote. Silverlight now support 100% GPU acceleration for video content.
Microsoft has also introduced a new feature called trickplay that allows you to fast playback or slow playback a video or audio content (it’s simiilar to what you natively have in windows Media player). Silverlight also now support remote controls and has better power management.
Silverlight 5 now also adds better data binding, custom markup extensions and implicit data templates and XAML breakpoint for better debugging:
There’s also new text rendering enhancements:
Microsoft’s PivotViewer is now fully integrated into Silverlight 5.
New 3D APIs and GPU support:
Microsoft hasimplemented new profiling and testing tools:
And Finally Silverlight 5will have better IE9 support and is now 64bit compatible
Silverlight 5 will launch later in 2011 after the release of the beta in Q1 2011.
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