Silverlight 2 RC0 now available!
Scott Guthrie has announced that Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 is now available for download:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/25/silverlight-2-release-candidate-now-available.aspx
Go here to download it and get started:
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/sl2rc0.aspx
Some key points. You should not update your live Beta 2 sites to RC0. This is being made available so that you can start getting your apps ready for the RTW release (coming soon). It will be very difficult for an end user to find and install RC0 on purpose, it's a developer's build for you to use for testing.
There are some new default control skins (very welcome in my opinion), some new controls, ComboBox, ProgressBar, and PasswordBox, and some major improvements to the control skinning model. Of course there are also a lot of bug fixes. There are also some display improvements like elements snapping to whole pixels to reduce the blurring on the edges, and some other improvements that I'll touch on in later posts.