Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

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re: Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

Michael Schreiber — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:02:54 GMT

Thanks for the clarification, but when is a go live version expected?

re: Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

imranshaik — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:36:23 GMT

Hi Tim,

Just a quick question, will Silverlight 2.0 plug-in have backward compatibility with Silverlight 1.1A applications?

Thanks

re: Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

rich — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:56:50 GMT

Hi Tim,

I have been learning Silverlight/WPF and was very disappointed to realise the 3d view port has not been included in Silverlight.

I'm not sure how but I would like to encourage the Silverlight team to include the viewPort3d in the final realise, even if it’s an optional add-on or only available to developers for the time being.

I have noticed that when I open 3d xaml in a browser directly the 3d does work as I wish it too. However as we know, when added to a html,.aspx page etc the browser will not accept. Is there a work around here for the purpose of test/development?

Many thanks.

re: Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

tims — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:19:08 GMT

Some good questions.

Michael, we'll have a limited form of Go Live license in time for MIX - still locking down details of that right now.

Imran, there are substantial breaking changes between the 1.1 alpha and what will become the final 2.0 release - we don't claim to be backward compatible with 1.1 alpha. However, 2.0 _is_ fully backward-compatible with 1.0 applications.

Rich, we don't support the 3D graphics APIs in Silverlight. This is a premium WPF feature that relies on the underlying DirectX hardware accelerated GPU support. If you want 3D, then WPF is your best choice. When you open a .xaml file in a browser, it's WPF that's being loaded, rather than Silverlight. You can host WPF content in an HTML page by creating a "XAML Browser Application", known as XBAP for short - but note that of course WPF is Windows-only. Hope this clarifies.

Best wishes,

Tim

re: Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

Will — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:35:22 GMT

Thanks for blogging this, Tim.

Vertigo recently released Slide.Show -- a Silverlight 1.0 slideshow control that has been impacted by this.

Slide.Show works perfectly in Firefox provided you are using the Silverlight 1.0 update that came out last month, but unfortunately, early adopting devs with the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha installed aren't getting the 1.0 auto-update (and not realizing it), so I keep having to field the question "Why doesn't Slide.Show work in Firefox"? Sigh. Oh well.

Here's a thread that discusses our particular issue:

http://www.codeplex.com/SlideShow/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=17970

re: Why Can't I "Go Live" with Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

kjopc — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:19:32 GMT

It seems nobody has told these guys there's no Go Live for 1.1

http://www.vectorform.com/silverlight/demos.php

The examples try to install the Alpha.

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