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Silverlight 4 is now available for download.

Silverlight 4 enhances the building of business applications, media applications, and applications that reach beyond the browser. New features include printing support, significant enhancements for using forms over data, support for several new languages, full support in the Google Chrome web browser, WCF RIA Services, modular development with MEF, full support in Visual Studio 2010, bi-directional text, web camera and microphone support, rich text editing, improved data binding features, HTML support, MVVM and commanding support, new capabilities for local desktop integration running in the new “Trusted Application” mode such as COM automation and local file access. 

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Learn what’s new in SL4.

Soon the language barrier will no longer be an issue. This piece of technology allows two users, speaking different languages, to communicate instantly. The speakers audio is turned into text, then that text is translated into another language and spoken aloud to the other party in the conversation. This could truly change the world.

Join Chipalo Street and Jaime Rodriguez to hear about the new text stack in WPF 4. With the new TextFormatingMode and TextRenderingMode options you are now in control of text and can produce sharp text. 
They will also cover embedded bitmap support, bindable run, and custom dictionaries, and CAFE.  

Related:
Comprehensive post covering this series and all new features in WPF 4 beta 2.