Silverlight Feature Suggestions
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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Set the filename in the Save As Dialog
Silverlight is about giving the users a first class UX.
I don't think that it's first class to let the user enter a document name each time the download a document.
We have to use ASPX for download until this usability bug is fixed.
Please also make the dialog title writable.
Thanks
1,638 votesSilverlight 5 Beta
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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).
1,894 votesFor trusted in-browser apps in SL5
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Better Game Development Support
Currently Silverlight 3 is a good platform for 2D casual games but lacks the control of, say, XNA. Porting the 2D XNA API to Silverlight would make it a much better platform for game development (as a separate library). This is definitely possible (see SilverSprite on CodePlex), but official Microsoft support would be much better.
637 votesSilverlight 5 Beta
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64-bit Support
Without having to replace sidebar64.exe (Windows Gadget)
627 votes -
Implement MarkupExtension
Allow adding custom MarkupExtensions for cleaner code.
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Click and Doubleclick event on all elements
Mousedown/up isn't good enough
i know that the programmer is able to do Click and Doubleclick himself. But such events should be there by default !
using Mouseup or Mousedown as Click introduce bugs all over the place !
Doubleclick is also needed for better apps.
748 votesSilverlight 5 Beta
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3,630 votes
Silverlight 5 Beta
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Support pinvoke for elavated trust applications
Since silverlight 4 now allows accessing OS services through COM, it makes perfect sense to reduce the pain by allowing pinvoke. Mono has proven that this is works across platforms. Not doing this will only make silverlight less appealing for any advanced applications. It should be left upto the application developers to decide whether what they offer is truely platform neutral or for a range of platforms.
48 votesSL5
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vector printing
Silverlight 4 prints by rasterizing the content to bitmap and sending this bitmap to printer. This has many unpleasant side effects - print jobs are huge, especially on high DPI printers and long documents, printing to PDF or XPS is essentially useless, because the output contains just bitmaps, etc.
Please, implement proper vector printing like WPF, Flash, GDI, Windows Forms etc.1,173 votesPostscript vector printing is planned for SL5
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Distribute Microsoft.Xna.Framework.dll for Silverlight 4
Making Microsoft.Xna.Framework.dll available in Silverlight for Windows Phone makes writing games in Silverlight easier but taking advantage of things like Vector2, Matrix, and SoundEffect makes it harder to share code between Silverlight for Desktop and Silverlight for phone.
Please release a version of Microsoft.Xna.Framework.dll for Silverlight for desktop so that we can share more code and more easily take advantage of XNA based open source libraries like physics engines.
143 votesA good bit of XNA is making it into Silverlight 5
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Full Screen with "Full" Keyboard Support
This was marked "completed" for Silverlight 4 but the original request is for "full" keyboard support. There are too many use cases to list here. There are a large number of requests in the forums -- the Silverlight 4 approach gets us closer. Many applications which benefit from full-screen support require keyboard input. One possible solution is to display an "opt-in" message requesting the user's permission to allow keyboard input to be collected.
58 votesThis is planned for Silverlight 5 trusted applications
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Bring Silverlight on Windows Phone in line with desktop version 4 or 5
Currently Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 is based on Silverlight 3 with small bits of Silverlight 4. It would be great to have Silverlight 5 launch simultaneously for desktop PC and as an update for Windows Phone 7.
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