Silverlight Alpha 1.1 Refresh


First, the good news:

Microsoft updated Silverlight. YAY!

Now the bad news:

Your Silverlight app (probably) no longer works :).

I got a rude awakening when I installed the new Silverlight Alpha 1.1 Refresh plug-in, and tried to access one of my tutorials with it. I got the nice “Get Microsoft Silverlight” download badge and nothing else. Once I upgraded my tutorials to use the Silverlight Alpha 1.1 Refresh, everything worked fine, so I guess complete backwards compatibility was too much to hope for from an Alpha product ;). So, if you have a Silverlight-based app online, I suggest updating your site to use the latest version ASAP. I sincerely hope the person responsible for SilverlightPad does the same soon. I love having the ability to slap together a little XAML in between compiles on my Mac at work without having to install anything.

In addition to “refreshing” the Silverlight 1.1 plug-in Microsoft has released Silverlight 1.0 RC. Thus, the “refresh” mainly consists of replacing the “core” runtime from the old Silverlight 1.1 Alpha with the new one from the RC. So, as Perry Stathopoulos mentions, the Silverlight Alpha 1.1 Refresh remains largely a disappointment. Not only do we have a number of breaking changes (understandable given the Alpha/Beta nature of Silverlight in general), but more disturbingly, somehow the new SDK ballooned to an ugly 200MB download due to a large number of PSD files that at first glance seem unnecessary. Let’s hope Microsoft has something else planned for Silverlight 1.1 soon besides large graphics and random Thumbs.db files :).

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August 3, 2007 | Filed Under Silverlight 

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