When are the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 bits going to be available?
Download will be available later this week. What is new in Silverlight 2 Beta 2? As is typical with a beta, we’ve made a number of incremental improvements based on customer feedback. This includes: · New and improved controls · Networking and data handling improvements · Improvements in error handling, reporting and development experience · Updates to Deep Zoom and animation · Updates to ensure WPF compatibility · General improvements in performance A full list of improvements and updates will be included in the release notes with the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 download. What are the features of Silverlight 2? Silverlight 2 builds on the foundation of Silverlight 1 but significantly extends the original development framework at every point. The most important innovation that Microsoft brought to bear with Silverlight 2 is its support for managed code. Because Silverlight 2 incorporates the core CLR classes, the runtime provides much richer networking stack support, including REST, RSS, JSON
