At TechEd
2008 in Orlando, an announcement Silverlight
2 Beta 2 will be publicly available later this week.
Improvement areas are:
-
UI Framework, including improvements in:
- animation support
- error handling and reporting
- accessibility support
- keyboard input
- performance
- more compatibility between Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation
-
Rich Controls, including:
- Visual State Manager, permitting the creation of controls as templates
- text wrapping
- scrollbars for text boxes
-
Networking Support, including:
- improved cross domain support
- security enhancements
- upload support for web client
- duplex communications (a server “push” model from server to a Silverlight client)
-
Rich Base Class Library, including:
- improved threading
- LINQ-to-JSON
- ADO.NET Data Services support
- improved support for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOA)
-
Deep Zoom Support, including:
- a new XML-based file format for Deep Zoom image tiles
- a new MultiScaleTileSource that enables existing tile databases to utilize Deep Zoom
- event-driven notification for zoom/pan state
Thanks Scotty for
the reference to this.
Cheers,
Mick.