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What's new in Silverlight 2 Beta 2?

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 includes a number of incremental improvements based on customer feedback.   Changes include improvements to controls, templating, Deep Zoom, performance, further compatibility with WPF, and much more.  For a full list of changes, see below:

Note: If you want to see a list of breaking changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2 go here.

· Animation
1. Support for animating custom data points
2. Object Animation support (animating structs)

· DeepZoom
1. New file format completely XML based. Also, there will be a new Deep Zoom Composer tool that will allow you to create these new file types.
2. MultiScaleTileSource  (implement a tile source to existing tile databases)
3. Better notifications when sub-images enter the view

· Controls
1. New TabControl
2. DataGrid improvements: Autosize, Reorder, Sort, Performance increase, and more
3. Calendar now supports multi-selection and blackout dates
4. Improved Templating Model: Visual State Manager
5. Control properties changes (Background, Tooltip, FontFamily, FontSize…)
6. Including controls in the runtime instead of having them packaged in app package

· TextBox
1. IME Level 3 input support on Windows and Level 1 on Mac
2. Text wrapping and multiline selection highlighting in textbox
3. Scrollbar Support
4. Document Level Navigation keys

· Improvements in error handling, reporting

· Property System/Parser
1. DependencyProperty.Register/RegisterAttached now supports PropertyMetadata
2. DependencyObject.ClearValue
3. Visual Tree Helper

· Data Binding
1. Per-binding level validation
2. Support for element syntax for binding markup extension
3. Binding to Attached Properties
4. ItemsControl Extensibility (OnItemsChanged method)
5. Fallback in Value Conversion (Binding.UnsetValue)

· Input
1. Limited keyboard support in FullScreen mode (arrow, tab, enter, home, end, pageup/pagedown, space)
2. Managed APIs for Inking

· Networking and Data
1. Cross Domain support in Sockets
2. Cross Domain security enhancements
3. BrowserHttpWebRequest and WebClient callable from BackGround Threads
4. Upload support for WebClient
5. UI for isolated storage (ability to change quota)
6. Duplex communications (“push” from Server to Silverlight client)
7. LINQ-to-JSON
8. Configuration support for web service proxies
9. Significantly improved SOAP interop
10. “Add New Item” template in Visual Studio for “Silverlight-enabled WCF Service”
11. ADO.NET Data Services support

· UIAutomation and Accessibility support in platform

· Media
1. Platform support for Adaptive streaming
2. Silverlight DRM, Powered by PlayReady
3. Basic SSPL support

· Localization
1. Changes in application model for multilingual apps (one xap per supported locale)
2. Expanded localization languages of runtime and SDK
3. Japanese SDK Installer and documentation (July 17)

· Several changes for WPF compatibility

· Remote Debugging for VB on Mac

· CLR
1. Developer Runtime Package facilitate development (localized strings, debugging binaries, etc)
2. Support the OS fallback logic for resources
3. CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture Isolation

· DLR
1. Performance improvements
2. Various new DLR and IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 language features
3. Various new IronRuby Features

 

David Pugmire
Product Manager - Silverlight

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2008
    PingBack from http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2008/06/04/what-s-new-in-silverlight-2-beta-2.aspx

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2008
    I'm a bit shocked.  No attempt to get even rudimentary rich text, while leaving a space for 3rd party support, is a bit baffling. Having said that, it looks like a lot of bug fixes in what is a VERY conservative release, which is probably wise considering that stability and correct operation is paramount at this time. Still I'm a bit dissapointed, but I'll get over it.

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2008
    One other thing. I think the inclusion of the TabControl is HUGE!!! Having that simple control solves a whole host of, well, not problems, but situations that would require a lot more code and design work... Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    June 04, 2008
    Silverlight 2.0 beta 2 is coming this week

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2008
    Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - The Full List of Changes

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2008
    Can you please blog on the recommended setup with respect to tools. Which version of Blend to use? Should we install Visual Studio 2008 Beta SP1? Can you please include order in which the releases need to be installed and which current software on our systems should be removed. Thank you! Karl MVP - Client App Dev

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2008
    You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2008
    I will post more detailed information once it is available for download.  But for now you can watch

  • Anonymous
    June 05, 2008
    There is a great list of all of the new features in Silverlight 2 beta 2 at this link . The release is supposed to be out this week, which would be today or tomorrow, one would hope. A few highlights from that post that caught my eye: The Visual State

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2008
    미리 예고된대로 Silvelright 2 베타 2 다운로드가 공개되었습니다. 다음의 링크로 직접 가셔서 설치하실 수 있습니다: Microsoft Silverlight Light Up

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2008
    Oh, yes! :) Install tools and runtime from here: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ There are too many

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2008
    Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 Released Ok, as usual let’s start with the download: For the Browser here’s the

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2008
    Confira agora mesmo uma lista de funcionalidades presentes na nova versão do Silverlight que entra em

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2008
    Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is Now Available

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2008
    Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 is Now Available

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2008
    Silverlight 2 Software Development Kit Beta 2 is Now Available

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2008
    Tal como lo comenta Scott Guthrie , el día de ayer fue liberada la Beta 2 de Silverlight 2 y, con ella se incorporan una serie de nuevas características y algunos cambios. Aquí les copio la lista de todo lo nuevo que se incluye en la Beta 2 según lo indica

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2008
    Tal como lo comenta Scott Guthrie , el día de ayer fue liberada la Beta 2 de Silverlight 2 y, con ella

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2008
    Silverilght 2.0 Beta 2 released

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2008
    The Visual State Manager is a useful addition. Any idea when we can expect a new set of UI controls e.g. dropdowns and masked textboxes? Is wsHttpBinding now supported? Also, will we see an SL equivalent of the Ajax Sys.Services.AuthenticationService in a future release?

  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2008
    by Don Burnett I keep hearing of people doing scary things with Silverlight version 2 betas like deploying beta 1 application, then installing beta 2 and expecting it not to break.. Well most people who do have "broken" applications can rest assured there's

  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2008
    Percorso formativo in italiano Aggiornamento del percorso formativo su Silverlight 2, ecco i link diretti,

  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2008
    Percorso formativo in italiano Aggiornamento del percorso formativo su Silverlight 2, ecco i link diretti,

  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2008
    Updated 18/7/2008 Percorso formativo in italiano Aggiornamento del percorso formativo su Silverlight

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2008
    can you give me a location for some documentation on data grids? Thanks

  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2008
    Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is Now Available