Silverlight 1.1 was officially renamed Silverlight 2.0

From today on, Silverlight 1.1 was officially renamed as Silverlight 2.0. The reason for renaming is mainly because of the huge changes that the original Silverlight 1.1 will undergo --

Today, in March September, Silverlight 1.0 was officially released. Its main goal is to bring richer media experiences to Web browsers and better support JavaScript/ajax programming models. The next version of Silverlight, which will be officially released next year, will use a wide range of network applications.ProgramThe goal is to provide a cross-platform, cross-browser. NET Framework and a richer. NET development platform for network development. Currently, the release of Silverlight 1.1 Alpha already contains some basic functions. In the next public release of the beta version, we will see a number of new functions, such:

1. Rich Control Support
Silverlight will finally provide you with a complete set of controls. Undoubtedly, this will make our RIA development more convenient. The next Silverlight test version will contain a series of basic form controls, such as Textbox, checkbox, radiobutton, and built-in layout management controls, such as stackpanel and grid; some common functional controls, such as tabcontrol, Slider, scrollviewer, and progressbar, and data processing controls, such as DataGrid.

2. Rich network support
The next test version of Silverlight will provide better support for the network, including rest, pox, RSS, and Web services. In addition, many developers expect that Silverlight will support cross-origin network access, the Silverlight client can access resources or data in any trusted domain!

3. Support for a wide range of base class libraries
Silverlight will include rich. net base class library functions in the next test version, such as collections, Io, generics, threading, globalization, XML, and local storage. In addition, built-in support for LINQ to XML will be added, and the integration of HTML Dom APIs will be more powerful.

4. Supported wpf ui framework
In the next version, Silverlight will include a scalable control framework model, layout manager support, two-way data binding, and control/style template support. WPF in Silverlight will be a complete subset of WPF, so the wpf ui framework in. Net 3.5 will be fully compatible with the wpf ui framework in Silverlight.

Obviously, Silverlight, which has undergone such a huge change, can no longer be called ". 1" of Silverlight 1.0 ......

The beta version of Silverlight 2.0 will be officially released in the first quarter of next year and will contain a certificate for the G0-Live. So by that time, developers can officially publish rich interactive applications based on. NET technology Silverlight on the Internet.

In addition, based on Visual Studio 2008, plug-in tools used to create Silverlight 2.0 applications will also be released free of charge. New tools will simplify the development of Silverlight applications. In the future, we will not only develop Silverlight in the standard and professional versions of vs2008, but also free vs2008 Express can be used for Silverlight application development.

It's really amazing ...... :)