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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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
1,104 votesThis is in Silverlight 5. See http://10rem.net/blog/2011/09/04/the-big-list-of-whats-new-or-improved-in-silverlight-5
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Maintain Full Screen (on secondary display)
(anyone with Netflix knows what I mean)
Changing from IE-embedded to full screen requires user action so the user isn't tricked. This reduces, for example, the risk of a SL web browser lookalike and fake banking website. SL also goes one step further and pops out of full screen any time it loses Windows focus. Good stuff, but annoying for the Netflix viewer (and many other media outlets).
Feature requested: when SL is running in full screen on a secondary display maintain full screen even when if the focus changes to another area like the Start menu. Maybe there should…402 votesSilverlight 4
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Implement webcam support
It would be great if you could use the output pin on your webcam and mic as input to a VisualBrush or as a source for WritableBitmap, making it possible to create interactive applications like motion sensing, taking a picture and such.
Currently, it would only be possible through streaming, but enabling this directly in Silverlight would make many applications possible that are now only available in Flash.
859 votesSilverlight 4
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Get Silverlight running on Windows Mobile
If you want to drive adoption of Windows Mobile phones, what better way than opening up development to Silverlight developers. It should be fairly easy to add Mobile support to MVVM based applications.
45 votesWindows Phone 7
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Print support
It should be possible to print the shown layout, screen etc. At least for reporting, charting etc
1,695 votesPlanned for Silverlight 4.
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RichTextEditor
Please add a RichTextEditor Control which could provide all the formatting capabilities of a good RichTextEditor, including converters from XAML to html & plain text built-in, as well as browser mode function to pre-view the html / plain text.
61 votesEverything you are asking for is enabled by the RichTextBox. All you need to do is provide buttons
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Full Screen with Full Keyboard Support
There are a million ways to ensure users who cannot be scammed without full screen mode will not be scammed in full screen mode neither.
Implement the necessary security steps (ActiveX-like notification bar, list of trusted sites etc.) and let us capture the whole keyboard in full screen mode!428 votesSilverlight 4
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Access to Clipboard
There's no way to reliably copy/paste data from the system clipboard. IE has a javascript method but FF and others don't.
Flash supports clipboard access if the access is driven by user input. Please support this in Silverlight too -- both copy and paste, if a user initiates the action.
376 votesSilverlight 4
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about common reference
Consider this scenario, there are multiple sl application USES the same. Web project bearing
Different HTML page have different loading xap bag, if these xap packages require ref a the same class library
So how to let this library only ref once, don't need each xap package has include the class library referenceSo I think the future sl application can pay more attention to it, such muti-xap application scenarios
To more like a common site, users do not have to xap page each time for a long time waiting for it to download, because can
Put a larger xap…3 votesThe ability to share and cache DLLs has been in Silverlight for a few versions now.
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Make the XNA Audio APIs from WP7 available in Silverlight for desktop
Silverlight on the Windows Phone 7 has access to some XNA audio APIs (among others). These APIs would be an excellent addition to the desktop Silverlight because they'd enable us to play sounds directly from our View Models, without the need for a UI control on the screen. This would be great for games and for playing sounds in response to events, among other uses.
27 votesSoundEffect and SoundEffectInstance are what we’re implementing for SL5
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Databinding debugging
Please enable notification of databinding errors so I can debug those errors and they are not swallowed instead
29 votesSL5
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Expand local file access (configurable) for home directory, network shares, and USB devices
Local file access in a SLOOB under SLET on SL4 is fantastic. But, hopefully this is a first step that will lead to inclusion of further configurable file system access, perhaps in Silverlight 5. Ideally there will be user selections, certainly controllable by Group Policy, that allow control of access to “My” folders, Home directory, removable devices, network shares accessible to the user, and everything on the machine that is accessible to the user.
In the interim, I have discovered a workaround. Admittedly, it’s not pretty, but it does indeed work, at least for the external USB hard drive and…
60 votesSilverlight 5 Trusted applications can access pretty much any drive or file location
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Fix the MediaElement when playing short sounds
It's absurd that this wasn't fixed in Silverlight 3.
168 votesWe took a different approach to this. Silverlight 5 supports the SoundEffect and SoundEffectInstance classes for playing short sounds.
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3 votes
Printing came out in SL4. SL5 is expanding on that.
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Dual screen
Ability to use dual screen on an OOB app.
So basically have a popup screen that is still running in the OOB instance.
3 votesSL5 OOB (trusted) applications can open additional real OS windows.
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microphone
support
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Rich Text Editor & Textblock
Create a rich text editor and TextBlock capable of formatting and displaying text in bold, italics, underline, inline images, ordered lists, unordered lists, etc.
754 votesSilverlight 4
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Get Silverlight running on Windows Mobile
If you want to drive adoption of Windows Mobile phones, what better way than opening up development to Silverlight developers. It should be fairly easy to add Mobile support to MVVM based applications.
244 votesWindows Phone 7
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62 votes
Silverlight 4
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Get Silverlight on Nokia Phones
Like Flash and Java ... Silverlight developer should be able to write applications targeting Nokia phones.
129 votesNokia S60 Series supports Silverlight 2 in-browser applications
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