What’s New in Silverlight 2 beta 2

The Silverlight SDK blog has an overview of what new features to expect from the Silverlight 2 beta 2 release coming this week.

Highlights for me include:

• DataGrid improvements: Autosize, Reorder, Sort, Performance increase, and more
• Improved Templating Model: Visual State Manager
• Including controls in the runtime instead of having them packaged in app package
• Limited keyboard support in FullScreen mode (arrow, tab, enter, home, end, pageup/pagedown, space) – This opens up Silverlight 2 for gaming.
• Cross Domain support in Sockets
• Cross Domain security enhancements
• BrowserHttpWebRequest and WebClient callable from BackGround Threads
• Duplex communications (“push” from Server to Silverlight client)
• Significantly improved SOAP interop
• ADO.NET Data Services support
• Changes in application model for multilingual apps (one xap per supported locale)
• CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture Isolation

This looks like its going to be an awesome new beta.

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