Silverlight 1.1 is now Silverlight 2.0

jrubino — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:30:07 GMT

I have spoken to a lot of people about Silverlight and in particular the upcoming release SilverLight 1.1 in recent weeks. That release will include a scaled down version of the CLR. This will bring .NET programing paradigm into the browser. Which I feel is huge.

Today it was announced that Silverlight 1.1 will be called Silverlight 2.0. Which I believe makes tremendous sense. It is a major release with significant changes and really should have never been a dot release.

The Beta Version of Silverlight 2.0 will be released in Q1 of 2008 and will have a go-live license. So I suggest you continue to work the the CTPs and get the Beta when it is release and consider putting it in your applications. It will give you a definite edge over your competitors.

That's it for now

-Joe

Visual Studio 2008 is released! (RTM)

jrubino — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:24:03 GMT

So I have been fielding a lot of questions about this over the last few weeks and I can happily announce that Visual Studio 2008 (.Net 3.5) has been released and is available to MSDN subscribers at http://msdn.microsoft.com.

Visual Studio 2008 has the following improvements (to name just a few):

Side-by-Side support (works side-by side with VS2005)
Multi-targeting (VS2008 can target .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5)
Unit Testing is now available in all editions of VS Professional
"Cider" designer integrated into VS 2008 (Full XAML support, rich CSS support, and more)
Source code editor

.Net 3.5 has improvements in:

LINQ
Workflow enabled services (WCF Activities in WF)
.NET Compact Framework (WCF in CF to name one)
WCF
WPF

VSTO improvements and more...

I suggest anyone who is currently developing in .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0 take a good hard look at this release. You will still be able target your current environments while opening the door to the new features like LINQ, Workflow enabled services, etc.

As always you can get all the info you need about VS2008 and .Net 3.5 on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com

Joe Rubino : .Net

Silverlight 1.1 is now Silverlight 2.0

Visual Studio 2008 is released! (RTM)