Welcome to the Silverlight feature suggestion forum. Please vote or submit a feature suggestion. If it is not a product feature request it might be moderated.
Please note this is a helpful tool in helping planning of ideas and understanding how developers use Silverlight. It may not always represent the actual priority list for the product team.
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3,260 votes
Full databinding support
Implement all WPF binding scenarios.
MOST WANTED:
1. Binding of non-framework elements. (Now you cannot bind properties of Behaviors and Triggers)
2. Binding of style setter
3. Ancestor relative source binding
4. x:Type x:Static ...
We really tired of Silverlight data binding hacks =(
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3,106 votes
Implement Silverlight on more platforms
The fastest way to encourage adoption is to get Silverlight on as many platforms as possible -- Windows Mobile, iPhone, Mac (all flavors), Linux, Android, Windows Embedded, MCML, and so forth. The more platforms, the better.
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2,453 votes
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1,883 votes
Get Silverlight on the iPhone
It would be great if we could write Silverlight apps for consumption on the iPhone. Even being able to write apps for the app store. Think if Microsoft could beat Flash to the iPhone.
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1,699 votes
Consolidate WPF & Silverlight Programming Models
As a WPF developer, moving to Silverlight has been like learning a whole new platform, and while I realize there are some things I might not be able to do related to network access or security, the fact that simple things like how a ComboBox works is different, has me pulling my hair out. So whe... more
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1,462 votes
Encoding and streaming to Media Server / IIS
To make some use for the webcam/mic support announced for Silverlight 4, some video/audio encoders should be built in (for example Windows Media or h264/AAC). Also there should be built in support for streaming audio/video to either a Windows Media server or to IIS using live smooth streaming.
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1,433 votes
Add file output support for Excel, PDF, XPS, etc.
In addition to being able to print and offer basic reporting, Line of Business apps need to easily be able to output to Excel, PDF, XPS. If I show a data grid with Sales Data to a VP at my company, they are going to want that data in Excel in one click.
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1,232 votes
Add PersianCalendar class from System.Globalization namespace to Silverlight, too.
PersianCalendar is a class which was added to System.Globalization namespace from .NET 2.0. But it is not included in Silverlight now.
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1,100 votes
Add Report Controls
Add Reporting Controls Support
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974 votes
Local database support (SQL Server Compact, SQLite) for OOB
Provide some sort of local SQL database with Silverlight OOB (so it could be used without stepping out of the sandbox) for a standalone OOB app
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932 votes
Enhance the rendering bitmap API and GPU usage also using shaders on the GPU
Right now the bitmap APi is primitive and needs more functionality as well as performance enhancements. We also need more functionality on the GPU, especially the shaders and 3D abilities in WPF. This would give game developers some serious power instead of what we have now.
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784 votes
Media Playback variable speed/rate
Ability to change the playback speed of the media element engine, allowing users to listen / view media at 1.5, 2 times the normal playback rate. Needed for playback of long recordings (think lectures) where you want to review lots of material. Akin to WMP implementation where you can set the playback rate
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740 votes
PLINQ and TPL
.Net 4 includes PLINQ and TPL. Silverlight 4 should, too. I want to use these in my app and run it on both .Net 4 and Silverlight 4.
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666 votes
Allow the HTML control to be used in browser.
Out of browser is fine (SL 4 Beta), but it is also needed in browser so that "3rd party" html content can be incorporated into a Silverlight application (actually a show-stopper for me).
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666 votes
add a professional text rendering engine
Something equal or better than the new Flash Text Engine in Flashplayer 10
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661 votes
Support for WCF wsHttpBinding + wsDualHttpBinding
Improve the Silverlight WCF stack by providing support for wsHttpBinding and wsDualHttpBinding
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537 votes
Minimize To SysTray in Out-of-Browser
the ability of making SL app look like a resident app will definitely attract more developers in creating more user-friendly apps.
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535 votes
JPEG decoder
Actually, the only way to get the pixels of an image is to load it in a BitmapImage and use the Writeable bitmap. But this has to be done on UI thread. This is restrictive because we cannot load and manipulate image(s) in a background thread before creating the final BitmapSource. The worst case ... more
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512 votes
Select and copy text from TextBlock elements
I know that what we really need is a FlowDocument control, with Select+Copy support, but until that arrives, it would be very useful to be able to select and copy text from TextBlock controls.
Weather or not this is possible, should be set as an Attribute on the element (SelectAndCopy="True... more