Silverlight 2.0 RTM? Silverlight vNext

By my reckoning we are due for Silverlight 2.0 RTM sometime shortly given that beta 2 was released in June. Having played with beta 2 I still think Microsoft has some way to go to catch Adobe. Specifically I think they need to consider the following for vNext:

• More controls – at a mininum the equivalent controls that are available in Flex 3 e.g accordian
• Full commanding support
• Better parity with WPF
  • Triggers
  • Richer data-binding
  • 3D support
  • Bitmap Effects
  • FlowDocument
  • Better rendering control (e.g. WPF SnapsToDevicePixel)
• A sensible push service in IIS, not this silly polling implementation! Think Lightstream, Liberator…..
• DataGrid and LINQ select anonymous types in your queries support

Interesting Silverlight reading:

• How to Scale your entire App and its Elements to your Browsers Size
• ViewModel Pattern
• SLUnity
• Silverlight Behaviors

Off-topic stuff:

• iPhone GUI PSD
• 10 Futuristic User Interfaces

~ by mdavey on August 28, 2008.