Silverlight 2 has been released at last! You can download it in the official Microsoft Silverlight site now!
I could remember it was only a few years ago when Silverlight was still WPF/E, and was later rebranded during Mix’07. For those of you that thought Silverlight 1.0 was neat, compared to Silverlight 2, it was just the tip of an ice-berg, and greatest thing about Silverlight is that it brings the .NET framework to the cloud.
There are many bloggers that covered the release of Silverlight 2, and for these few days (or weeks) we will be seeing loads of broken Silverlight sites cause the new release has broken all of the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 sites, other than those that have previously downloaded the RC0 release and updated their Silverlight application accordingly.
To find out more about the list of changes, check out these links:
- Silverlight 2 Release Guide by Jesse Liberty
- Silvelright 2 Released: New controls, tools and announcements by Tim Heuer
- Silverlight 2 Released by Scott Guthrie
As for those developing Silverlight applications, make sure you install Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Microsoft Expression Blend 2 Service Pack 1 and Deep Zoom Composer, which are all available in the Get Started section of the Silverlight.net portal.
In the meantime, Scott Barnes has came up with a Website to celebrate the release of Silverlight 2, check it out.
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