I thought my first test with Silverlight 3 should be to see which bugs that I reported during the release candidate of Silverlight 2 have been fixed.  In this post I’m only dealing with things I consider bugs as opposed to feature requests. Interestingly none of my feature requests have been implemented so far even though some of them are as simple as changing properties to public.

I'm very impressed to see that so many of the bugs have been fixed, although there is still a large number still not fixed and I would assume that is relatively unlikely they will be fixed between now and the final release.

Unfortunately the Silverlight developers are not very good at updating the connect site. I would have assumed that all of the bugs that are fixed would have been closed, but none of them have been.  The only issue that has been closed is one that I've been told has been passed on to the Silverlight developers (#372170), but now that it is closed how am I going to know it's been fixed?

The bugs are listed below with the connect bug numbers and a link to the bug if you wish to examine it in more detail.

Fixed:

#372104 DataContext = this On Silverlight rc0 causes Internet Explorer to crash

#372312 Converter not called when data value changes

#372957 Should be possible to bind to a collection item in Silverlight

#373118 Tooltip should inherit DataContext of its containing element

#373684 Changing an object when you are bound to a sub item of that object fails in Silverlight

#373909 More Silverlight Data binding woes

#377446 Adding a DependencyObject to a ListBox in Silverlight causes exception

Not Fixed:

#372170 ToggleButton IsChecked should be TwoWay by default

#373116 ToolTip causes ArgumentException

#373957 Value does not fall within the expected range assigning PointCollection in Silverlight

#377171 Using a path style from app.xaml fails the second time in Silverlight

#377494 ToggleButton doesn't display the IsChecked visual state correctly

#378419 Assigning new content to a ContentControl clears other controls in the template in Silverlight

#425334 Binding to ActualWidth ignores changes in Silverlight (bug just added, but it was in SL 2.0)

If you've been hiding under a rock today, you won't be aware that Silverlight 3 beta is now available for download.

You can download it here:

Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio

I'll be posting a more detailed review of how it improves WPF compatibility in the very near future.  In the meantime, if you want to know what's new checkout this excellent post by Tim Hauer:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/03/18/silverlight-3-whats-new-a-guide.aspx

…Stefan