3D Graphics in Silverlight 5 Beta: links + cool apps !

Useful links

• Graphics & 3D with Silverlight 5
• MIX11 Day 2 Keynotes
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie
• 3-D Graphics Overview
• XNA Math Library
• HLSL Build Task with Visual Studio Integration
• Walkthrough: Creating and Animating a 3-D Textured Cube in Silverlight
• What's new in Silverlight 5 beta? 3D graphics support!
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–The Third Dimension
• Silverlight 5 3D Housebuilder Project Shown at MIX11
• MSDN Code Gallery
• Aaron Oneal’s Blog
• David Catuhe’s Blog
• Silverlight 3D Model Importer 
• Babylon Toolkit

My first Silverlight 3D app (based on Color Cube Sample from MSDN gallery):

Interesting samples (very cool!):

Babylon 3D Engine

3D Housebuilder

Solar Wind 3D Sample

 A bump mapped Lizard & An animated Tank (from Silverlight 3D Model Importer)

I will blog more details about SL5 3D graphics in the upcoming months.

Reactivation!!! New features in Silverlight 5 Beta + Links + Samples - Part I

I’ve reactivated this blog! I always love new technologies, especially CTPs and Betas!

What’s new in Silverlight 5?  Here’s my summary of the features already announced for it.  Silverlight 5 Beta features are colored red. I have made some demos. In addition, I have included some interesting samples I had found on the Web.

Intro

• The Future of Microsoft Silverlight
• Get Started: Silverlight 5 Beta
• Silverlight 5 Features Document
• Silverlight 5 Beta – available now!
• Silverlight 5 Beta–A guide to the new features
• Silverlight 5 Beta Development Tools
• What's New in Silverlight 5 Beta (Pete Brown)
• What's New in Silverlight 5 Beta (msdn)

Data binding

• Data Binding

Implicit Data Templates

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5
• Implicit Data Templates in Silverlight 5 Beta
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Implicit Data Templates
• DataTemplate.DataType

RelativeSouce Ancestor Bindings

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Ancestor Relative Binding
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie
• Binding.RelativeSource

Binding In Style Setters

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie

Binding to Dynamic Properties

• Binding to Dynamic Properties with ICustomTypeProvider
• Silverlight 5 Beta–Binding to Dynamic Properties
• ICustomTypeProvider

Databinding Debugging

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5
• Silverlight 5 Beta Debugging Binding
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Debugging Data-Binding

DataContextChanged Event

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5

UpdateSourceTrigger: PropertyChanged

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5

XAML

Custom Markup Extensions

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Markup Extensions 
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie
• MarkupExtension

CornerRadius, Thickness, Size, and Rect - attribute syntax on properties

Layout

Inter-layout transitions

• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie

Input

ClickCount

• Silverlight 5 Mouse Button Double and Multi Click
• Mouse Support 
• ClickCount

ItemsControl Search

• Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Incremental Search
• TextPath

Text

RichTextBoxOverflow

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5
• Silverlight 5 Multi-Column and Linked Text
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Linked RichTextBoxes
• RichTextBoxOverflow
• RichTextBox

Tracking & leading

• CharacterSpacing (Control, TextBlock, and TextElement)
• LineHeight & LineStackingStrategy ( Block, TextBlock, TextBox and RichTextBox)

Text Clarity

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5

Full OpenType Support

Printing

Vector PostScript Printing

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5

Media

Low-latency audio (SoundEffect API)

• Silverlight 5 Low-Latency Sound Effects

TrickPlay*

• Building In Browser Experiences with Silverlight 5
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trick Play Video

*video-only for the Beta

Improved power awareness

Remote-control support

Seamless switching between DRM media sources

Trusted apps

• Trusted Applications

in-browser*

• Advanced Features in Silverlight 5
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trusted Apps In The Browser 
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie

*Windows-only for the Beta

Enterprise Group Policy Support

Hosting HTML content (and NotificationWindow ?)

• WebBrowser

Unrestricted File Access

Full keyboard access in full-screen

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P/Invoke

out of browser

• Advanced Features in Silverlight 5
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie
• Window

Unrestricted File Access

Multiple Native Windows

• Silverlight 5 Native Windows
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support

Main Window Improvements

P/Invoke

Network communication

WS-Trust: message security - encrypted at the WCF level, SAML authentication token

PivotViewer

• Advanced Features in Silverlight 5
• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie

3D Graphics

I’ll write next post about 3D !

XNA graphics API (3D, 2D)

DrawingSurface control

XNA Effects

XNA Math Library

Others

Default filename in SaveFileDialog

Performance

Improved startup performance (multi‐core background JIT support)

XAML Parser performance optimizations(ResourceDictionaries, UserControls)

Improved Graphics stack - Independent Animations

• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Composition Thread?

Improved Text Layout performance

Hardware Decoding H.264

• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Hardware Decoded H.264

Network Latency optimizations

Hardware acceleration in windowless mode with Internet Explorer 9

• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Silverlight and IE9 in Windowless Mode

64-bit

• Advanced Features in Silverlight 5

Tools

Automated UI Testing

• Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie

Profiling Support

• Tips for Improving Performance in Applications Built with Silverlight

In the nearest future I’ll write post about cool 3D graphics.

Cheers!