Silverlight 3 and Blend 3 is finally here…!!!

Just moment ago in keynote by Scott Guthrie [Corporate Vice President of the .NET Developer Platform at Microsoft] announced announced  Preview availability of Expression Blend 3 for Silverlight 3 and much awaited Silverlight 3 SDK Beta 1

Download Silverlight 3 SDK Beta 1 :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D09B6ECF-9A45-4D99-B752-2A330A937BC4&displaylang=en

Check Silverlight 3 Beta 1 Documentation :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc838158(vs.96).aspx

Download Silverlight 3 Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=11dc7151-dbd6-4e39-878f-5081863cbb5d

Download Silverlight 3 SDK Beta 1 Developer Runtime :

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=143433

Download Blend 3 Preview :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a04aa0ae-87be-4201-a65e-e792859122fc

Just few features of Silverlight (Ref. Keynote at MIX 09 )

Silverlight 3 features :

• Pixel shaders
• DeepZoom improvement including Hardware Accelaration
• GPU Hardware Accelaration
• Deep linking
• Multitouch Support
• Navigation improvement
• Text optmztion

Blend 3 features :

• C#,XAML Intellisense
• Sketch Flow
• Imports from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

More good news is You can now enjoy Olympics 2010 at Vancouver Canada with Silverlight powerful Live Smooth Streaming.

Also Expression Web SuperView is here ! .. Read more about it here :

http://baxiabhishek.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!8C55799877482F9D!1185.entry?sa=353043044

Well..much more to talk about now..I will get back with tons of things here soon !! :)

Vikram.