Microsoft released Silverlight 3 on 10th July 2009 as per the schedule. You can download the SDK, Visual Studio Tools & Blend from the following location:
Silverlight 3 came with the following features:
- Out of Browser support
- Network status check
- Pixel Shader Effects
- Bitmap APIs
- Runtime themeing support
- Enhanced control skinning
- Support for System Colors
- Bitmap Caching
- Perspective 3D view
- GPU hardware acceleration
- Text animation
- H.264 support
- RAW audio/video support
- Save File Dialogue
- Wrap Panel, View Box, Dock Panel
- Support for local fonts
- Binary XML
- Component caching & Scene caching
