Monday, June 09, 2008
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is here!

Silverlight 2 BETA 2 released on Friday and is the best release of Silverlight so far!  It is packed with features, with many much-awaited features like DRM coming into play!

On the media end, SL 2 BETA 2 supports server-side playlists, DRM and adaptive streaming (that was announced at MIX).  I intend to post more technical details on these in upcoming posts.

One of the good things for developers is that many of the base Silverlight controls have been moved into the runtime, hence not requiring that additional piece of download when the app loads.  That would make app loading really fast and app size really small!!  That addition into the runtime has not increased the runtime size which is still around 4.3 MB for Windows.

A full-fledged post with all features is at ScottGu's blog here.  This is a must-read for anybody who is interested in Silverlight!  It covers the comprehensive list of features we've released in Silverlight 2 BETA 2 and in Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview.

Download Silverlight and Expression with the SDK/VS Tools here.

posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 8:02:07 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)  #    Comments [3] Trackback
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Monday, July 14, 2008 9:37:26 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
Is the Ask & Win contest at http://vistalive.timeus.net/winners.aspx cancelled? Those who asked Vista-related deployment questions (top 100) were promised copies of the Windows Vista Resource Kit. It's 45 days now yet the winners list hasn't been announced.
anonymous
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:45:41 PM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
Well, since you chose to be anonymous, I can't respond elsewhere but here.

I dont know about that contest because that was not from our team. I can mail the marketing team in general about the feedback, but they'll need an ID to get back to you. So if you can post back a comment with your ID, it would be useful.
Pandurang
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:43:40 AM (India Standard Time, UTC+05:30)
According to me data push seems to be an interesting feature and everyone was expecting that UI Controls will be added. I must say that silverlight is improving with every release and i just cant wait to switch from flex to silverlight. Flex really is pain with Actionscript and its architecture. Silverlight 2 is a definite winner for me.
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