Is there a resource out there which lists the features, functionality and potential release date of Silverlight 3 (currently called Alexandria)?
My group is currently building a product with Silverlight 2 as the deployment platform. We need to research/be prepared for Alexandria, and see if it will resolve some of our issues.
ScottGu is your all-knowing source of all things Silverlight. As far as I've seen that posting is the latest and most authoritative information on SL3.
Most of the major/cool features are expected to be announced at Mix next week.
Channel 9 has video that lists some features at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Brad-Abrams-Silverlight-30-for-Great-Business-Apps/
There are some neat features including New Web Navigation project type Support for hooking into back/forward buttons and deep linking Detail control Enhancements to data grid
They are also expected to support more video formats.
Some cool stuff coming up now if only they could improve the tools to work with it!
Alexandria is actually not the codename for Silverlight 3. It is a codename for some technology leveraged by Silverlight 3, but not Silverlight 3 itself.
Here are some important sessions:
What’s New in Silverlight 3
A summary of all new features in Silverlight 3.
http://sessions.visitmix.com/MIX09/T14F
Amazing Business Centric Apps in Silverlight 3
Covers domain services (connecting server data to Silverlight client), the data grid, paging, sorting, filtering, the data form control, validation and more.
http://sessions.visitmix.com/MIX09/T40F
Intro to the Data Form Control
Not a Mix Session but a great deep follow-up to the above session. Goes in depth on the Data Form control, related attributes, etc.