Microsoft Silverlight 2 Released

realsoftwaredevelopment.com — Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft made the official announcement that Silverlight 2 was available. Surprises also included Eclipse support and the Silverlight XAML vocabulary being published.This is a significant event as it not only marks a huge milestone for the Microsoft Silverlight Team, but it also marks the date that Flash finally got a true competitor after years of complete domination. While Silverlight 1.0 was released last year, it was mainly a video only version, with some JavaScript/AJAX support that lacked the true power of .net. With the release of Silverlight 2, Microsoft has introduced a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework. read more...

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