Microsoft has made Silverlight 5 available for download.
Here are some of the developer related enhancements:
XAML Debugging with breakpoints for binding debugging
Implicit data templates for easy UI reuse
Double (and multi) click support
GPU-accelerated XNA-compatible 3D and immediate-mode 2D API
Low-latency sound effects and WAV support
Real operating system windows and multi-display support
Significant performance improvements, fixes and much more
The question on my mind is if anyone should invest in Silverlight 5, will there be a version 6 or is this the last version that will be delivered? You can still use your Silverlight skillset to build WinPhone apps but the future is HTML 5 + JavaScript.
Take a look at the Windows 8 Win RT image…see SilverLight anywhere?
Silverlight also doesn’t run in the browser on mobile platforms, Adobe announced a couple of weeks ago that they are stopping developing Flash for mobile platforms as well…yes Steve Jobs is laughing from his grave. IE 10 on the Metro version of Windows 8 does not support plugins, this means no Flash or Silverlight
Either way, you can download Silverlight 5 here: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ it might be the last version that you will download
Denis has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. Although he worked as an ASP/JSP/ColdFusion developer before the dot com bust, he has been working exclusively as a database developer/architect since 2002. In addition to English, Denis is also fluent in Croatian and Dutch, but he can curse in many other languages and dialects (just ask the SQL optimizer) He lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and three kids.
