Sneak Preview of Microsoft Silverlight 2

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Thanks to a recent post on ScottGu's Blog, we can all get a preview of what is to come with the public beta release of Silverlight 2. According to the post, Scott will be doing several posts over the next few weeks and months in order to talk about it more in depth.

Here is some information from the post:

"Silverlight 2 includes a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework, and enables a rich .NET development platform that runs in the browser. Developers can write Silverlight applications using any .NET language (including VB, C#, JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby). We will ship Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio tool support that enables great developer / designer workflow and integration when building Silverlight applications."

Read the rest, including 8 tutorials on how to use Silverlight to build a Digg search client:

• Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008
• Part 2: Using Layout Management
• Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid
• Part 4: Using Style Elements to Better Encapsulate Look and Feel
• Part 5: Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data
• Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Details Scenarios
• Part 7: Using Templates to Customize Control Look and Feel
• Part 8: Creating a Digg Desktop Version of our Application using WPF

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