Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available now

hanuk — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:59:49 GMT

We recently released Silverlight 2 Beta2 for public.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 plug-in (runtime), Beta 2 SDK, Silverlight 2 Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 can be installed together from the following link:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120319

Blend 2.5 June Preview provides Silverlight 2 Beta 2 support and can be installed from the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx?filter=prerelease

Here is a list of new features in Siverlight 2 Beta 2:

.NET programming support (Visual Basic.NET, C#.NET, Iron Python, IronRuby)
Isolated Storage for caching support on the client
WCF support
ADO.NET Data Services
LINQ to Objects and LINQ to XML
Deep Zoom technology
XML programming
Media content protection
Rich managed control framework
New set of controls to improve developer productivity (CheckBox, TextBox, RadioButotn, DataGrid, TabControl, etc.)

For more details please look at the following link: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx

Cheers,

Hanu

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available now