Silverlight 4.0.60310

Microsoft Corporation - (Freeware)

Experience rich Internet applications like animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback with Microsoft Silverlight.

Silverlight is a cross-platform plugin compatible with all major browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox, which allows viewing interactive animations but also audio and video on specialized sites such as mySpace, DailyMotion community etc. It is Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash technology.

Silverlight integrates animations and numerous geometrical forms such as ellipses, squares or other forms, having a small library with several interesting features. This software also allows playback of MP3 streams, WMA Standard.

For developers, this application is based on .Net Framework technology and has integration of graphics tools and effects for the web pages. It adapts to existing infrastructure such as Apache, PHP, Javascript and XHTML and supports many programming languages (C #, Python, Visual Basic, etc.). It now includes a 3D engine enriched with advanced features, the management of H.264 video, video streaming in HD format via IIS management capacity management and 3D video graphics card, enrichment effects animation and transition images and text, etc.

Title:: Silverlight 4.0.60310
File Size:: 6.0 MB
Requirements:: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 19 Apr 2011
Publisher:: Microsoft Corporation
Homepage:: http://www.microsoft.com
MD5 Checksum:: 9CABB0D216E5502ADDB80756FA2F046C

# Improved media support and rich UI capabilities:
* Hardware Decode and presentation of H.264 improve performance for lower-power devices to render high-definition video using GPU support.
* TrickPlay allows video to be played at different speeds and supports fast-forward and rewind. At up to twice the speed, audio pitch correction allows users to watch videos while preserving a normal audio pitch.
* Improved power awareness prevents the screen saver from being shown while watching video and allows the computer to sleep when video is not active.
* Remote-control support allows users to control media playback.
* Digital rights management advancements allow seamless switching between DRM media sources.

# Building next-generation business applications:
* Text improvements make it possible to build rich magazine-style text layouts:
- Multicolumn text and linked text container allow text to flow around other elements.
- Tracking/leading set precisely how far apart each character is for full creative control.
- Text clarity is improved with Pixel Snapping.
- Text layout performance is significantly improved.
- OpenType support has been enhanced.
* Applications can now work the way users expect with added support for double-click and Combobox type ahead.
* Model View ViewModel (MVVM) and Databinding enhancements allow more work to be done more easily via XAML:
- Debugging support now allows breakpoints to be set on a binding, so you can step through binding failures.
- Implicit DataTemplates allow templates to be created across an application to support a particular type by default.
- Ancestor RelativeSource allows, for example, a DataTemplate to bind to a property on the control that contains it.
- Binding in style setters allows bindings to be used within styles to reference other properties.
- The DataContextChanged event is being introduced. Markup extensions allow code to be run at XAML parse time for both properties and event handlers, enabling cutting-edge MVVM support.

# Networking and Windows Communication Foundation enhancements:
* Reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking.

# Performance improvements include:
* Reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking.
* XAML parser improvements that speed up startup and runtime performance.
* Support for 64-bit operating systems.

# Graphics improvements:
* Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerated 3-D application programming interface (API) provides rich graphics on the Web for building advanced data visualizations and rich user experience (UI).
* Immediate mode graphics API allows direct rendering to the GPU.
* Hardware acceleration is enabled in windowless mode with Internet Explorer 9.

# Extends features of the â€˜Trusted Applicationâ€™ model to the browser for the first time. These features, when enabled via a group policy registry key and an application certificate, mean users wonâ€™t need to leave the browser to perform complex tasks:
* Host HTML content as a Web browser control within the Silverlight application. HTML pages, such as help content or e-mail, can be integrated within the application.
* Read and write files to the userâ€™s My Documents folder, making it easier to find media files or create local copies of reports.
* Launch Microsoft Office and other desktop programs. Users can open Microsoft Outlook and create an e-mail message, or send a report to Word utilizing the power of Office.
* Access devices and other system capabilities by calling into application COM components. Users can access a USB security card reader or a bar-code scanner.
* Enjoy full keyboard support in full screen, which enables richer kiosk and media viewing applications.
* Call existing unmanaged code directly from within Silverlight with PInvoke.

# Tools improvements include:
* Microsoft Visual Studio profiling support including CPU, memory, thread contention.
* Visual Studio Team Test support.