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New Moonlight preview shows Silverlight 3 features

By Fabio on Wednesday May 6th 2009 05:33 | Category: Software

The developers of Moonlight, the Linux and OS X referred opensource version of Silverlight Microsoft have released a preview of version 2.0. This version has functionality of Silverlight 3.0 beta process.

The preview version of Moonlight 2.0, which Silverlight content on Linux and OS X is made accessible, contains all the functionality that Microsoft end 2008 in Silverlight 2.0 launched. Since the Moonlight ontwikkelfase of a beta version of Silverlight 3.0 appeared, it was decided to include some of these features in the new Moonlight to take. The preview version of Moonlight is mentioned that there is forward compatible.

Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 will include new options for streaming video, graphics hardware acceleration, and better enable content elements from the browser to the desktop to drag, and as stand-alone web applications to run. These features are partly processed in Moonlight 2.0. For example, the developers are easier to create animations, can Silverlight content on the desktop are stored and the multiscale image features, media stream source and writeablebitmap added.

In addition to elements from Silverlight 3.0 are 'borrowed', the second version of Moonlight CoreCLR also the security model. That code elements in three classes into: transparent, safe-critical and critical. Additional controls in the Silverlight Toolkit processed, it is possible to write code in Iron Ruby or Iron Python and there is a routine added to the maximum bitrate for streaming content to the user can be determined.

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