Advanced Features in Silverlight 5

2. Advanced Features in Silverlight 5 Nick Kramer Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation nkramer@microsoft.com

3. Agenda • Unrestricted File Access • Trusted Apps In-Browser • Group Policy • P/Invoke • HTML support • Multiple Windows • 64-bit • PivotViewer

4. Silverlight Insurance demo

5. Unrestricted File Access SL4 trusted apps can access: SL5 trusted apps can access:

6. Unrestricted File Access demo

7. Agenda • Unrestricted File Access • Trusted Apps In-Browser • Group Policy • P/Invoke • HTML support • Multiple Windows • 64-bit • PivotViewer

8. Trusted Apps • SL4: OOB apps run trusted with user consent • SL5: in-browser trusted apps with admin consent • Set permissions via group policy • No prompts or installs • Familiar navigation model • Can be part of a larger HTML site

9. Trusted Apps (2)

10. Creating a Trusted App (1) • Just like SL4 trusted OOB <OutOfBrowserSettings> <OutOfBrowserSettings.SecuritySettings> <SecuritySettingsElevatedPermissions="Required" /> </OutOfBrowserSettings.SecuritySettings> </OutOfBrowserSettings>

11. Creating a Trusted App (2) • Sign the .xap • Same as for a trusted OOB • In Visual Studio or on command line signtool.exe sign /v /f nameOfCert.pfx /p "<password>" nameOfApp.xap or

12. Trusted In-Browser App demo

13. Agenda • Unrestricted File Access • Trusted Apps In-Browser • Group Policy • P/Invoke • HTML support • Multiple Windows • 64-bit • PivotViewer

14. Permissions in Group Policy • Actually, only one permission – trusted or not • Network admin specifies which publishers are trusted • Publishers identified by Authenticode certificate • Put certificate in client machine’s trusted publisher store • Same as ClickOnce • Xaps are associated with publishers by Authenticode

15. Permissions in Group Policy (2) • Apps from localhost: are automatically trusted • Ease of development • In Beta, also need a registry key • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Silverlight\ AllowElevatedTrustAppsInBrowser=1

16. Agenda • Unrestricted File Access • Trusted Apps In-Browser • Group Policy • P/Invoke • HTML support • Multiple Windows • 64-bit • PivotViewer

17. P/Invoke Coming Soon post beta • P/Invoke lets you call native code • COM (SL4) also lets you call native code • Anything you can do with COM can also be done with P/Invoke • Strongly typed • No COM registration • P/Invoke is optimized for Win32 APIs & native C/C++ code • COM is optimized for COM Automation APIs, eg Office • COM & P/Invoke are available on Windows to trusted apps

18. P/Invoke (2) Coming Soon post beta • Works exactly like it does in .NET Framework [DllImport("kernel32.dll")] staticexternintGetDriveType(stringlpRootPathName); … int type = GetDriveType(drive);

19. Coming Soon post beta P/Invoke demo

20. Agenda • Unrestricted File Access • Trusted Apps In-Browser • Group Policy • P/Invoke • HTML support • Multiple Windows • 64-bit • PivotViewer

21. WebBrowserIn-Browser • Use HTML inside Silverlight apps • To reuse existing HTML/ASP.net content • To integrate with outside websites • In SL4, only OOBs got WebBrowser(WebOC) • In SL5, in-browser WebBrowser support (WebOC/IE)

22. WebBrowser demo

23. Agenda • Unrestricted File Access • Trusted Apps In-Browser • Group Policy • P/Invoke • HTML support • Multiple Windows • 64-bit • PivotViewer

24. Multiple Windows • System.Windows.Window is now an instantiable class • Windoww = newWindow(); • w.Height = 400; • w.Width = 600; • w.Content = new MyUserControl(); • w.Visibility = Visibility.Visible;

25. Multiple Windows demo

26. Agenda • Unrestricted File Access • Trusted Apps In-Browser • Group Policy • P/Invoke • HTML support • Multiple Windows • 64-bit • PivotViewer

27. 64-bit Support Coming Soon post beta • 64-bit machines & apps are becoming increasingly common • SL5 can run in a 64-bit process • 64-bit browsers • Sidebar on 64-bit Windows • Why 64-bit is interesting: • Because you don’t get to choose the browser • Because you’re native hosting in a 64-bit process • Because you need a lot of address space

28. Agenda • Unrestricted File Access • Trusted Apps In-Browser • Group Policy • P/Invoke • HTML support • Multiple Windows • 64-bit • PivotViewer

29. PivotViewer Coming Soon post beta • Ships as part of the SL5 SDK • Dynamic client-based collections • XAML-based visuals • Customizability

30. Coming Soon post beta PivotViewer demo

31. Call to Action • Silverlight 5 ships second half of 2011 • Please give us feedback on the beta! • mailto:nkramer@microsoft.com • http://blogs.msdn.com/nickkramer/ • Questions?

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