Mar 17

Features:

  • Rich Text
  • RichTextBox rename
  • Text position and selection APIs
  • “Xaml” property for serializing text content
  • XAML clipboard format
  • FlowDirection support on Runs
  • Format then type” support
  • Thai/Vietnamese/Indic support
  • UI Automation Text pattern
  • Networking
  • UploadProgress support (Client stack)
  • Caching support (Client stack)
  • Sockets security restrictions removal (Full Trust)
  • Sockets policy file retrieval via HTTP
  • Accept-Language header
  • Out of Browser (Full Trust)
  • XAP signing
  • Silent install and emulation mode
  • Custom window chrome
  • Better support for COM Automation
  • Cancelable shutdown event
  • Updated security dialogs
  • Media
  • Pinned full-screen mode on secondary display
  • Webcam/Mic configuration preview
  • More descriptive MediaSourceStream errors
  • Content & Output protection updates
  • Updates to H.264 content protection (ClearNAL)
  • Digital Constraint Token
  • CGMS-A
  • Multicast
  • Graphics card driver validation & revocation
  • Graphics and Printing
  • HW accelerated Perspective Transforms
  • Ability to query page size and printable area
  • Memory usage and perf improvements
  • Data
  • Entity-level validation support of INotifyDataErrorInfo for DataGrid
  • XPath support for XML
  • Parser
  • New architecture enables future innovation
  • Performance and stability improvements
  • XmlnsPrefix & XmlnsDefinition attributes
  • Support setting order-dependent properties
  • Globalization & Localization
  • Support for 31 new languages
  • Arabic, Hebrew and Thai input on Mac
  • Indic support
  • Script
  • Languages
  • Bengali, Assamese, Manipuri
  • Oriya
  • Malayalam
  • Kannada
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Gujarati
  • Gurmukhi
  • Punjabi
  • Devanagari
  • Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Konkani, Kashmiri, Nepali, Sindhi

Other New features:

  • Update to DeepZoom code base with HW acceleration
  • Support for Private mode browsing
  • Google Chrome support (Windows)
  • FrameworkElement.Unloaded event
  • HTML Hosting accessibility
  • IsoStore perf improvements
  • Native hosting perf improvements (e.g., Bing Toolbar)
  • Consistency with Silverlight for Mobile APIs and Tooling
  • SDK
  • System.Numerics.dll
  • Dynamic XAP support (MEF)
  • Frame/Navigation refresh support