Silverlight 4 Beta

Hello every body,
Hope you will be fine there.

As we all know that Silverlight 4 Beta is in the market and every one has started working over it and me too. So I would like to let you people know that what i have studied so far.

In SL 4 Beta there are new amazing features have been added in it.
New Features for Application Developers

* Comprehensive printing support enabling hardcopy reports and documents as well as a virtual print view, independent of screen content.
* A full set of forms controls with over 60 customizable, styleable components. New controls include RichTextbox with hyperlinks, images and editing and Masked textbox for complex field validation. Enhanced controls include DataGrid with sortable/resizeable columns and copy/paste rows.
* WCF RIA Services introduces enterprise class networking and data access for building n-tier applications including transactions, paging of data, WCF and HTTP enhancements.
* Localization enhancements with Bi-Directional text, Right-to-Left support and complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew and Thai and 30 new languages.
* The .NET Common Runtime (CLR) now enables the same compiled code to be run on the desktop and Silverlight without change.
* Enhanced databinding support increases flexibility and productivity through data grouping/editing and string formatting within bindings.
* Managed Extensibility Framework supports building large composite applications.
* Exclusive tooling support for Silverlight, new in Visual Studio 2010. Including a full editable design surface, drag & drop data-binding, automatically bound controls, datasource selection, integration with Expression Blend styling resources, Silverlight project support and full IntelliSense.

Developer tools

* Fully editable design surface for drawing out controls and layouts.
* Rich property grid and new editors for values
* Drag and drop support for databinding and automatically creating bound controls such as listbox, datagrid. New datasources window and picker.
* Easy to pick styles and resources to make a good looking application based on designer resources built in Expression Blend.
* Built in project support for Silverlight applications
* Editor with full intellisense for XAML and C# and VB languages.


Above given information has been taken from silverlight web site

http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/