Update on Feature Requests

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re: Update on Feature Requests

neaflo — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:09:35 GMT

Hi Joe,

This is a feature request for which I haven't really seen yet much interest and I'm quite sure that once SL becomes the de facto choice for writing the client-side of any SaaS platform, it will be tremendously needed.

The scenario is quite simple. While online, a Silverlight application stores data in the Isolated Storage. The Internet gets offline (or the live services fail), the user is informed that there is no live connection and only the local data is available, the newly inserted data will be temporarly saved in the Isolated Storage and synchronized automatically with the live services once the connection is back (or services are ON again). This is extremely important to allow the user to continue working with the application as usual without feeling much pain.

I have seen requests for "Offline support" but from the brief descriptions it wasn't clear whether this offline support will solve the above issue. It seems that, as described, Offline support actually means the ability to start the SL application without having an Internet connection. This is very important and I subscribe to it but the big question is: if the SL application is started offline, will the local data stored during the online sessions in the Isolated Storage still be available offline? This should be a must in order to enable the above scenario ...

So, to brief the requests:

1. Offline support - the ability to run the SL application when the Internet connection is OFF.

2. Offline support - the ability to consume the local data stored in Isolated Storage the SL application was online.

3. Allow WPF applications to consume the data stored in the Isolated Storage by a SL application.

Thanks,

Florin

re: Update on Feature Requests

Gongdo — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:55:48 GMT

Hello,

I'm a East-Asian developer(actually Korea).

I've posted a sort of complain about FontSource behavior at silverlight.net forum: http://silverlight.net/forums/t/60095.aspx

However I didn't get any response, because of my horrible English, I gusss. :(

I'm not good at English so I'm going to summarize that I want to tell you.

- Most of East-Asian font is too huge to integrate into an Assembly.

- So, I can't use FontFamily option like "Font.zip#Font Name".

- Now, the only way to change Font is to set FontSource property by code every single element which I need. Because FontSource is not supported by Control so it's not inheritable.

- It's too messy. Why don't you support FontSource from Control, just like FontFamily does?

Thank you,

Gongdo

re: Update on Feature Requests

jemiller — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:48:11 GMT

Seems odd that web cam/microphone input would rank so high. There are a lot more fundamental things that are missing IMHO.

re: Update on Feature Requests

filimoner — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:20:21 GMT

Hello,

Features request:

- Printing

- Right mouse button

- Mouse wheel

- Credentials/auth

- Synchronous web service calls

Thanks

re: Update on Feature Requests

wizzard0 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:51:26 GMT

I wish to vote for:

- Multi-target DLLs for .NET/SL

- RSA/DSA encryption

- Alpha video and/or video frame grabbing (great for animation compression)

re: Update on Feature Requests

wizzard0 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:52:44 GMT

Also, ability to work offline _within the browser_ when the Internet connection is not available (temporarily) is also great

(Like Google Gears)

re: Update on Feature Requests

KD1974 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:59:40 GMT

Sign me up for full 3D support.

I have built some models with X3D which has a lot of things in common with Silverlight/XAML (XML format, RenderTransform/RotateTransform, Animationtimers, Opacity, etc.)

Problem with this is the limited plug-in coverage (Flux, Vivaty, Octaga, etc) and logo display. If Silverlight could support this standard it would be a good argument for convincing my boss an creative director to use this great technology.

re: Update on Feature Requests

KD1974 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:26:20 GMT

Drag & Drop of files (for use in fileupload). I understand security is an issue, but maybe 1 yes/no popup would be sufficient.

re: Update on Feature Requests

starman2049 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:52:03 GMT

My company has adopted Silverlight and the first thing I tried to do was use the TileBrush in a project and it did not work (does work in WPF). I would vote for that, especially since it is already in WPF.

Full 3D is a must. Whomever cracks the HW Accelerated 3D nut wins the battle. Does not need shaders, and all the corner cases just HW accelerated rendering in a window.

I am assuming that when you do get HW accelerated 3D rendering working it will be ala WPF (i.e. Media3D Namespace, Viewport3D, etc). It would be nice to know if that is the direction you are taking as I am writing exporters, and tools using WPF as the testbed right now assuming silverlight will follow.

re: Update on Feature Requests

KD1974 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:43:38 GMT

Request for Mousewheel support. I have built 2 Silverlight controls and I get feedback that people miss this.

re: Update on Feature Requests

KD1974 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:13:18 GMT

Add 1 to Clipboard support for me as well.

re: Update on Feature Requests

KD1974 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:19:42 GMT

I mean the ability to copy a piece of a HTML page (incl. IMG tags) from the browser and paste it in my Silverlight Editor control. Like a contenteditable DIV where you get the HTML pasting for free.

re: Update on Feature Requests

andywhite — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:33:53 GMT

SaveFileDialog

In some places of business we are required to do a SHA256 hash on any file upload or download to confirm that the file sent/received by the client is the exact same file that the server received/sent. Currently we use ActiveX in IE or Java in FF to provide this exact feature. The only way I could justify including Silverlight in our dependency list is if we could remove both ActiveX and Java... OpenFileDialog provides what we need for uploads, what we need is so so close... please add SaveFileDialog.

The field of Managed File Transfer will be growing in the next few years and MFT requires strict verification of files.

I'd also like to throw in a vote for right mouse click support.

re: Update on Feature Requests

Greg Neilson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:34:53 GMT

wsHTTPBinding. Over and above any other request by far.

You guys are pushing Silverlight as a LOB application platform, using WCF as a service layer - but without Silverlight support for the WS standard, it's either a complete no-go or else we're going to have to write loads of code to do message security, anti-replay attack, username authentication, etc etc etc

Also, can I request more blog postings, videos, process guidence etc around the are of Silverlight and WCF communication? There's plenty of stuff around showing off the (impressive) eye candy - but once we'd got over that, we now start looking at the fundamentals - and it's hard to find anything decent on securing the communication between Silverlight and WCF.