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.