Silverlight 2.0 Beta is Coming

Scott Guthrie revealed details about the Silverlight 2.0 release last week including that a public beta is coming soon.

Here are the details that you probably care about:

• The full download for the Silverlight beta release is a bit more than 4 MB
• Silverlight runs in a variety of browsers and on both OSX and Windows
• The beta includes a subset of the WCF client libraries including the ability to create proxies and call WCF endpoints

Scott also has a number of tutorials published about writing a Silverlight sample application.

1. Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008
2. Part 2: Using Layout Management
3. Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid
4. Part 4: Using Style Elements to Better Encapsulate Look and Feel
5. Part 5: Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data
6. Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Details Scenarios
7. Part 7: Using Templates to Customize Control Look and Feel
8. Part 8: Creating a Digg Desktop Version of our Application using WPF

I'll be able to tell you more about the WCF subset once the beta actually comes out.