Today Microsoft announces the first release candidate of Silverlight 2 for developers who need to prepare their beta 2 applications and make sure they are ready to go when Silverlight 2 releases to the world. No dates have been promised for Silverlight 2 just yet, but they are sticking with "sometime before the end of the year". Check out a detail post at Tim Heuer's website., he gives the lowdown, something I want to point out is... "Silverlight 2 Beta 2 applications will not work with the final release". So check out the breaking change document.
If you didn't read Tim Heuer's notes, then let me restate this: NOTE: DO NOT PUBLISH THIS TO PUBLIC!!!
Its meant to prepare not to be published just yet.
So what do you need to update to RC0?
So 3 new controls were promised with this release: Progress Bar, Password Box, and the most requested Combo Box aka drop down list box.
*Additionally* I have had several people ask the same common question what is Expression Blend 2 SP1. SP1 is the service pack for the released version of Expression Blend 2, and it replaces the need for the old June Preview of Expression 2.5 used to make Silverlight 2 applications in beta. This does mean, if you have been using the preview version and never actually purchased Expression 2 products, in order to create Silverlight 2 applications after release, you WILL need to pick up atleast Expression Blend 2.
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