Silverlight 4 minor update

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Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

posted @ Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:59 PM | 23 Comments

Today we released a service update for Silverlight 4. This is a minor release that addresses some items found immediately after release that have now completed our test passes with those who reported them. Most of the items found won’t affect all users, but media developers will want to get this update for their applications and encourage their users to upgrade.

This update (4.0.50524.0) addresses a few media-related items found by some of our media customers. A few items were serviced for DRM users as well as 2nd monitor usage for media on the Mac platform. If you are developing media solutions (or are a media application user), you’ll want to upgrade to this release and encourage your users to as well. You can read more about the key specific issues in KB982926.

For Developers

If you are a developer and want to get the update, all you need is to update the developer runtime. There is no tooling or SDK update for this release. You can download the updated developer runtime here: Windows developer runtime or Mac developer runtime. Once installed, your new Silverlight 4 applications will target this platform version. No other changes to your tools are required. On existing applications if you want your users to ensure they have this latest version, please ensure you update your <object> tag to increment the minRuntimeVersion attribute to the appropriate version (4.0.50524.0).

What about <fill-in-the-feature-issue-you-found>? Why isn’t that in this update?!

Some may wonder how fixes get determined to be in which releases. You may be asking hey I reported XYZ right after release and why isn’t it in this update!? Our team, like other large teams, operates on a schedule of planned (and sometimes unplanned) releases.

We have general timeframes for service releases in the event we need them. Sometimes those planned cycles aren’t needed and the planned release is skipped. This helps better plan actual resources, etc. When an issue is identified from any type of customer, it is evaluated by the ‘triad’ for that release (a triad represents leads for program management, dev, and test). Things like security issues are given obvious priority versus things that aren’t regressions or are new features.

Once that list of work items is determined (based on criteria set by the triad) the work begins. This includes development, testing, compliance, security passes, etc. Each time a change to the plan occurs, this process gets reset. So once a set of work items is approved and determined to be the release it usually doesn’t change unless something significant. Of course there are many other factors that are involved here and I’m generalizing.

Back to your question of where are my reported changes? If they aren’t in this release, they are still being evaluated for the next cycle (or perhaps already being worked on and solved). Once I have more information on future releases I’m happy to share them.

Hope this helps!

tags: silverlight, ria, xaml, wpf

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Comments

Mike Stokes

6/3/2010 3:03 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Thanks for the update Tim, it was obviously something you guys felt was important enough to push out an out of cycle update to the runtime. Given that there is the option to set the minRequiredVersion and this is not a you-must-have update, everything should proceed very soothly for our users, which is the primary concern.

Looking forward to the information on future updates when it's available :)
Vijay

6/3/2010 4:01 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

What is the difference between a user control and a page. I followed your sample and, when you add a new page inside Belnd 4 RC, it actually creates a user control in XAML and not a Navigation page.

Comparing that to the default page helped me discover this. Can you talk about this a little.

thanks
ozz

6/3/2010 4:06 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Thanks Tim, now tell the xaml team to pump it up!
Andrew

6/3/2010 8:59 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

@vijay
What is the difference between a user control and a page.
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nothing, all is "user control"

i hope silverlight 4 and all microsoft stuff (ie included), have forced automatic update solution
say i don't read the blog post, do i will update ?
Jonathan van de Veen

6/3/2010 11:32 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

How about this memory leak that was found? Is there any timeline on that?
Jani

6/3/2010 11:57 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Is this a SL4 or a SL3 update?

On my SL3 system this update appears within the Windows Automatic Updates.

Because we are developing a SL3/VS20008 based solution, it's critical to apply this update!
Denny

6/4/2010 6:04 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Tim I am sure this is more than you want to do in a service update but PLEASE!!

RichTextBox .Xaml property should work for databinding !!!!
seems like they meant to make that work and left out some code inside it.
PLEASE get them to fix that - I do not think it breaks any code and it will make using it much simpler in RIA and declared binding useage that many folks expected to work and have been stubling on the failure of it.
timheuer

6/4/2010 6:45 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Jonathan - the memory leak (DataTemplate) issue is not in this service release. It was identified after this cycle was already in process with final testing. We expect that issue to be addressed in a future service release, looking like end of summer.

Jani - this is a Silverlight 4 update.

Denny - It is a good suggestion as a new feature. Be sure to suggest it for the list http://silverlight.mswish.net or vote on an existing item if it already is in there.
Jani

6/4/2010 7:27 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Thanks Tim,

If this is a Silverlight 4 update, why it occurs on my Silvelright 3 computer?
timheuer

6/4/2010 7:31 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Jani -- all updates are offered to the user if you have auto update enabled (and they are also offered via Microsoft Update mechanisms). Silverlight 4 is backward compatible with SL3 and we consider this an upgrade. We will always offer the upgrade when available.
denny

6/4/2010 9:09 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Tim: if you look at the silverlight.net forums and at how the RTB works the xaml property is the only one you can possibly databind with. and it even looks like it was meant to. but it does not.
right now there is no way to bind it directly.

IMHO is't a flaw in the control that should be a "Fix" not a "Feature"
look at all the other text controls, they can be bound, the grid can be bound, the list can be bound but not the RTB.
amyo

6/4/2010 9:26 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

For developer they need to change the plugin download link too

go.microsoft.com/.../ which actually showing the beta version message!

Need to change it to: go.microsoft.com/.../
Narendra Kumar

6/4/2010 9:36 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Hi,

We have a policy in my company not to use products which are not WAC. My question is is Silverlight 4.0 WAC complaint.
If so then is there any documentation which tells so.
Thanks

narendra
timheuer

6/4/2010 9:37 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

amyo -- thanks for pointing out the beta notation. If you actually omit the version string from the FWLink you'll always get the latest for the platform.
timheuer

6/4/2010 9:41 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Narendra -- see http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/CL51
Simon

6/7/2010 5:18 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Hi..

Just wondering if there is any potential conflict between having the Developer Runtime installed via the tools and any subsequent update that might come via something like WSUS. Right now, I have WSUS wanting to put KB 982926 on my machine but I don't know if I should accept it in case it knocks out any dev/debug capabilities.

Should I accept the update but then replace by getting the latest Developer Runtime?
timheuer

6/7/2010 7:39 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Simon -- for a developer you should apply the developer update which is linked above.
manjunath

6/23/2010 5:14 AM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

I am getting following error in the designer. Any suggestion to solve this?

System.NotSupportedException
Could not find Microsoft Silverlight SDK v4.0. Plase make sure that the correct version of the Microsoft Silverlight SDK has been installed.

I have installed Silverlight4_Tools.exe on VS 2010.
chemist

7/19/2010 9:48 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Same error here as manjunath:

System.NotSupportedException

Could not find Microsoft Silverlight SDK v4.0. Plase make sure that the correct version of the Microsoft Silverlight SDK has been installed.
Arnie

7/28/2010 8:49 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Same error for me:System.NotSupportedException

Could not find Microsoft Silverlight SDK v4.0. Plase make sure that the correct version of the Microsoft Silverlight SDK has been installed.

I installed VS 2010 Professional on Win Vista Ultimate, uninstalled SL3, installed SL4 Tools. Everything compiles and runs but I cannot work in XAML designer in VS 2010.
Liz

7/29/2010 9:14 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

I'm getting the same error

System.NotSupportedException
Could not find Microsoft Silverlight SDK v4.0. Plase make sure that the correct version of the Microsoft Silverlight SDK has been installed.

I have VS2010 on Win 7 and I have installed Silverlight 4 but when I checked the registry I couldn't find the key in Microsoft SDK for Silverlight. Any idea to solve this?
timheuer

7/29/2010 9:52 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Liz - If this is for development of Silverlight applications and you are getting this error in Visual Studio, then install the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio from http://silverlight.net/getstarted
Liz

7/30/2010 3:49 PM | # re: Silverlight 4 minor update–June 2010

Thank you Tim for the suggestion but the version I'm using is that one. I do not know what other option I can try. I have tried SL3 and SL4 and I'm still getting the same error.