Hello everyone,
as most of your Silverlight-Interested-People might already know, Microsoft has released the beta-version of the upcoming Silverlight Version 4. Lot of things are new, but instead of spreading it out myself, I want to post some references to really good summaries and tutorials I found.
All I really needed to do, to get started with SL 4 was (beside installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 which I already had on my machine) go to this page:
GetStarted Page for Silverlight 4 beta
download an install the tools. the new runtime is in the package too.
A pretty good summary of the new features can be found on Tim Heuers Blog:
Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features
And there is also a series of articles published by Alex Golesh that are hands-on-tutorials for some of the new features
- Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 1) – Webcam/Mic Support
- Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 2) – Printing Support
- Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 3) – Elevated Out-of-browser applications
- Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 4) – Out-of-browser applications: even more features
- Silverlight 4: New features overview (Part 5) – DataBinding improvements
I will surely write more about this topic during the next weeks, so stay tuned 
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Sascha