Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Available
Today at Mix, Scott Guthrie announced the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 1. This is an exciting release for Silverlight, since it provides a ton of new features, including built in controls, layout containers like Grid and StackPanel, control skinning, templating, improved networking, and better performance. It also provides better Visual Studio 2008 integration, and a new drop of Blend which supports the new controls. Also for game programmers, the new DispatchTimer is great for game loops.
You can download the Beta and the tools here:
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/#betajump
Over the next couple of weeks I'll be updating the game tutorials to be in line with Silverlight 2. I took some time off since I knew a lot was going to change, and didn't want to have to refactor all of the samples.