On 2nd December 2010, at the delivering of the keynote on "The future of Silverlight ", Scott Gu announced about Silverlight 5.
As always Scott was inspiring in his red T shirt
Some of the features are as below,
- Hardware Video decode
- Trick play: This allows video to be played at different speed and supports fast forward and back.
- Remote control support to allow user for media playback
- Digital rights management advancements allow seamless switching between DRM media sources.
- Improved power awareness
- Developer will be able to debug data binding.
- Developer will be able to set breakpoint on binding.
- Enable extensive MVVM support Debugging support now allows breakpoints to be set on a binding, so you can step through binding failures.
- Implicit DataTemplates allow templates to be created across an application to support a particular type by default.
- Ancestor RelativeSource allows, for example, a DataTemplate to bind to a property on the control that contains it.
- Binding in style setters allows bindings to be used within styles to reference other properties.
- The DataContextChanged event is being introduced. Markup extensions allow code to be run at XAML parse time for both properties and event handlers, enabling cutting-edge MVVM support.
- Reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking.
- WS-Trust support: Security Assertion Markup Language authentication token.
- Reduced network latency by using a background thread for networking.
- XAML parser improvements that speed up startup and runtime performance.
- Support for 64-bit operating systems.
- Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerated 3-D application programming interface (API) provides rich graphics on the Web for building advanced data visualizations and rich user experience (UI).
- Immediate mode graphics API allows direct rendering to the GPU.
- Microsoft Visual Studio profiling support including CPU, memory, thread contention
- Hardware acceleration is enabled in windowless mode with Internet Explorer 9.
Full details can be read at scott blog,
And on official Microsoft site,