Silverlight 3 Beta to RTW changes

Saturday, July 11, 2009

It is very important that your applications are ready for Silverlight 3. If you have developed with the Beta bits you have to do a lot of changes to get ready for RTW. There exists a document changes.docx which I can not find at the moment. For that reason I decided to make a copy public on ~~my private server~~.

If you run a Silverlight 2 application no action is necessary. The SL3 plugin can host SL2 applications. So there are no breaking changes between 2 and 3!

There are a set of bugs fixed in SL 3 related to SL 2. For compatibility reasons Silverlight plugin detects and change to quirks mode running SL 2 applications in a bug friendly mode.

[Update]thanks to Tim Heuer: link is http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645049(VS.95).aspx. Saves traffic on my server ;-)

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For the benefit of those who may be following this post, of course Silverlight 3.0 was released on Friday along with the definitive list of features:-

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/jul/silverlight_3_released

Tim Acheson - Tuesday, July 14, 2009 1:16:37 PM

btw the Silverlight 3 runtime download is here
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107362

preishuber - Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:56:17 AM

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