Silverlight 4 beta is available!!!

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A few months after the release of Silverlight 3, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Beta at the PDC. And what we can say, it’s that this version is full of features that the community has been asking for:
  • Tooling
  • Printing API
  • Right-click event handling
  • Webcam/microphone access
  • Mouse wheel support
  • RichTextArea Control
  • ICommand support
  • Clipboard API
  • HTML Hosting with WebBrowser
  • Elevated trust applications
  • Local file access
  • COM interop
  • Notification (“toast”) API
  • Network authentication
  • Cross-domain Networking changes
  • Keyboard access in full screen mode
  • Text trimming
  • ViewBox
  • Right-to-left, BiDi and complex script
  • Offline DRM
  • H.264 protected content
  • Silverlight as a drop target
  • Data binding
    • IDataErrorInfo and Async Validation
    • DependencyObject Binding
    • StringFormat, TargetNullValue, FallbackValue
  • Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
  • DataGrid enhancements
  • Fluid UI support in items controls
  • Implicit theming
  • Google Chrome support

For more information on these functionalities, you can read the Tim Heuer post about that: https://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx

To download the runtime: Windows or Mac.

The official web site: https://silverlight.net