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