It’s only been about 9 months since Silverlight 2 was released in October 2008, we are nearing the release of Silverlight 3, and already the momentum is building for Silverlight 4. A thread recently has been started on the Silverlight forum to capture people’s wish list. You can read the full forum thread here and add on your own wishes.
I’m preparing to finish writing part of a chapter that talks about “The Road Ahead” for our soon to be released Silverlight 3 book so I had some help pulling together a summary of what people are asking for already as of today. The following is just a snapshot but thought you might find it interesting if you didn’t have time to read the long forum list – The top 10 or so on the list all had multiple people requesting those items.
| Printing support |
| Right-click context menus |
| Host HTML content |
| Better shaders |
| Better mouse support |
| Fix WriteableBitmap |
| Mic support |
| Better LocalMessage APIs |
| Better File IO Support |
| Full 3D w/GPU acceleration |
| WebCam support |
| Concurrent release on Linux |
| Audio streaming |
| Chrome in OOB applications |
| Deep linking/Navigation in OOB apps |
| Reconsider OOB model |
| Export UI as bitmap |
| Complete source code for controls |
| Better Unit Testing |
| Text right to left |
| Mobile support |
| Better tables (merge columns and such) |
| Copy text from a textblock |
| Make TCP/IP compatible w/Flash |
| SQL reports |
| Expose PixelShader.SetStreamSource() |
| Improve rendering performance |
| Tweening/morphing support |
| Intellisense in XAML for Blend |
| Animated images |
| Pop-up Silverlight windows |
| Faster Silverlight windowless mode |
| Silverlight as ActiveX control |
| Better compression |
| Custom Open/Save file dialogs |
| Complete DX10 support |
| Silverlight apps directly installed OOB |