After many months of beta testing Microsoft Silverlight 2 it has been officially announced that it will release today, the 14th of October 2008.
A release build was expected to emerge sometime in November so it seems the team is very confident with the RC0 developer-only build that emerged recently. Unluckily for my team we just released our new product on Friday based on Silverlight 2 beta 2 under the Go-Live license thinking we had at least a month before Silverlight 2 released to fix up compatibility issues. Looks like this week is going to be a busy one for us.
Here is a snippet from the official press release:
Silverlight 2 will be available for download on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight. Customers already using a previous version of Silverlight will be automatically upgraded to Silverlight 2.
What is awesome though is that Microsoft will soon release an extra set of Open Source controls known as the Silverlight Control Pack including a DockPanel, ViewBox, TreeView, Accordion and AutoComplete control.