What is new in Silverlight 2 Beta 1?
Features of the Beta 1 include: • UI Framework: Silverlight 2 Beta 1 includes a UI framework that makes building rich Web applications much easier. It provides a powerful graphics and animation engine, as well as rich support for higher-level UI capabilities like controls, layout management, data-binding, styles, and template skinning. Silverlight 2 is a compatible subset of the features in the full .NET Framework, and enables developers to re-use skills, controls, code and content to build both rich cross browser web applications, as well as rich desktop Windows applications. • Rich Controls: Silverlight 2 Beta 1 includes a rich set of built-in controls that developers and designers can use to quickly build applications. This upcoming Beta1 release includes core form controls (TextBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, etc), built-in layout management panels (StackPanel, Grid, Panel, etc), common functionality controls (Slider, ScrollViewer, Calendar, DatePicker, etc), and data manipulation cont
