Open many Windows 7 native features to Silverlight with the Native Extensions For Microsoft Silverlight V2

UPDATE 03/03/2011 – NESL version 2.0 is now available at

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/nesl/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5519

• New Features
  • Touch Features
    • Gesture support
    • Manipulation processing support
    • Inertia processing support
    • Touch hardware information

Windows 7 Notification Area (System Tray) support

• Add/Update/Remove notification icons to the notification area
• Add/Remove notification information balloons
• Respond to notification and notification balloon events
• Add/Update/Remove context menus to notification icons
• Respond to context menu selections
• “Minimize to tray”/”Restore from tray”

“Single application instance” pattern support

• Allow only a single instance of the application to run at any time
• Be notified when a subsequent launch is attempted
• Aids in applications that add themselves to the system tray, and hence needs
  to maintain a single running instance.

New feature demos illustrating for Local Encoding, Portable Devices,
Touch and Sensors

Full Developer Documentation and updated API Guide

Bug Fixes