Microsoft blog said that Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 will be released this weekend, and has been paying attention to it and has finally waited.
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Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008
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· UI framework: Beta 2 supported des improvements in animation support, error handling and reporting, automation and accessibility support, keyboard input support, and general performance. this release also provides more compatibility between Silverlight and WPF.
· Rich controls: Beta 2 events des a new templating model called visual state manager that allows for easier Templating for controls. other features include the introduction of a tabcontrol, text wrapping and scrollbars for textbox. dataGrid additions include autosize, reorder, sort, performance increases and more. most controls are now in the runtime instead of packaged with the application.
· Networking support: Beta 2 supported des improved cross domain support and security enhancements, upload support for WebClient, and duplex communications ("push" from server to Silverlight client ).
· Rich base class library: Beta 2 supported des improved threading abilities, LINQ-to-JSON, ADO. NET data services support, better support for soap and other improvements to make networking and data handling easier.
· Deep ZOOM: Beta 2 introduces a new XML-based file format for deep zoom image tiles as well as a new multiscaletilesource that enables existing tile databases to utilize deep zoom. better, Event Driven notification for Zoom/PAN state is another improvement in Silverlight 2 beta 2.