A few days ago (6th of November) the third version of .Net SDK for Facebook was released. This release has major new features like Silverlight and ASP.MVC support. What this means to Silverlight community?  Below you will find my first impressions and remarks.

The October release of the Silverlight Toolkit introduces several nice controls, libraries and improvements. Some time ago I described how easy it is to implement drag & drop with Silverlight 3.0. When I noticed Tim Heuers post about the new features of drag & drop I thought “what more we can get?”…we can! Imagine that you have a list box with elements that you want to reorder simply by drag & drop. Before, this required some code behind but not anymore. Have a look!

Silverlight amazed me again. Some time ago I’ve heard some noise around SketchFlow. Then I only knew one thing – it is very similar to Balsamiq (other tool for mocking your UI). Now, I had more time to elaborate on what Microsoft Blend + SketchFlow really is. To be honest, I am very positively surprised. What great features have I found there?

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Silverlight has already come quite a long way of improvements. We have now version 3 which includes enhanced features that earlier required much more coding. Currently, some of these issues are solved and shipped together in the Silverlight library. I call them candies. They are just as easy to use and as sweet as the real ones. Today, I will show what Drag & Drop candy looks like.