Silverlight 5 continues the pace of rapid innovation, building on Silverlight 4′s capabilities in the areas of rich applications and premium media experiences. With over 40 new features, the Silverlight 5 beta highlights dramatic video quality and performance improvements, as well as new capabilities that improve developer productivity.
Some of the new features of this release are as follows:
- XAML Debugging with breakpoints for binding debugging
- Implicit data templates for easy UI reuse
- Double (and multi) click support
- GPU-accelerated XNA-compatible 3D and immediate-mode 2D API
- Low-latency sound effects and WAV support
- Real operating system windows and multi-display support
- Significant performance improvements, fixes and much more
You can get more details on the download and the tools from the url http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-5-beta/
