What's New in Silverlight 5

Whats New in Silverlight 5
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Whats New In Silverlight 5

Data Binding Improvements Text Controls Media Trusted Applications

Data binding improvements

Data binding debugging Ancestor RelativeSource binding Implicit data templates UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged Binding in style setters Custom markup extensions

Data binding improvements

These updates are very welcome changes for developers using MVVM in their applications

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
Its a separation pattern, like MVC or MVP Improves structure / separation of concerns Enables better designer / developer workflow Enhances testability Made possible by the robust data binding capabilities of Silverlight and WPF

MVVM Structure
View
XAML Data bindings
View Model
Model of the View (or View of the Model)
Properties and commands
Model
Domain model / business logic
Services, persistence, everything else

Connecting the pieces of MVVM

View -> ViewModel
ViewModel exposes properties and commands that
the view binds to ViewModel implements INotifyPropertyChanged to relay change notifications to View The Views DataContext is bound to the ViewModel, making all of its properties and commands available to the entire View

Connecting the pieces of MVVM

ViewModel -> View
ViewModel contains domain objects from the
Model and exposes relevant portions of it to the View ViewModel calls services to fetch or save data to the Model

Key elements of MVVM

INotifyPropertyChanged
PropertyChanged event
ICommand
Execute CanExecute CanExecuteChanged event

MVVM Basics
DEMO

Data binding debugging

Allows breakpoints on data binding statements Exposes information on the data binding source, errors, etc Makes troubleshooting data binding issues really easy!

Data binding debugging
DEMO

Ancestor RelativeSource binding

New binding mode brought over from WPF Allows a child element to bind to properties on its parent Very useful within item templates in an items control

Ancestor RelativeSource binding
DEMO

Implicit data templates

Another binding feature from WPF Defines a template to be used whenever Silverlight tries to display a particular type In Silverlight 4, we had to explicitly specify a template for our custom types Very useful when binding to a list of different subclasses not limited to a single item template now!
Implicit data templates
DEMO

New UpdateSourceTrigger
Adds PropertyChanged option to available UpdateSourceTriggers also from WPF When used, the source of the binding (on our ViewModel) is updated whenever the property on the View is changed

PropertyChanged UpdateSourceTrigger
DEMO

Custom markup extensions

Markup extensions are the parts of XAML that are surrounded by {curly braces}
Binding, StaticResource, DynamicResource, etc
They provide a value one that is often not known until runtime Silverlight 5 now allows us to create our own markup extensions

Custom markup extensions
DEMO

Binding in Style Setters

Styles are useful and widely used to define a consistent look and feel to our applications Until now, binding in the setters within styles were now allowed Silverlight 5 allows us to create binding statements within stlyes

Binding in style setters
DEMO



Text improvements
Character spacing and line height TextOptions pixel snapping OpenType support Linked text blocks for multi-column and flowing text

Character spacing and line height

CharacterSpacing and LineHeight properties
TextBox, TextBlock, RichTextBox, RichTextBlock
CharacterSpacing calculated based formula:
Spacing (in pixels) = (font size * Value) / 1000
LineHeight is the spacing between lines, in pixels

Linked text
RichTextBlocks can now specify a RichTextBlockOverflow element that text will flow to when full RichTextBlockOverflow elements can specify additional overflow containers Limited only to read-only RichTextBlocks

Linked text, character spacing and line height
DEMO

TextOptions
TextFormattingMode
Ideal, Display (pixel snapping)
TextHintingMode
Fixed, Animated
TextRenderingMode
Auto, Aliased, Greyscale, ClearType

OpenType Support
Ligatures glyphs with more than one letter Contextual Alternates Stylistic Sets Variants superscript and subscript Fractions Much more in the Typography class!

TextOptions and OpenType
DEMO



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