Big News!
Scott Guthrie posted today an entry titled "Optimizing the Silverlight Install Experience".
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/30/optimizing-the-silverlight-install-experience.aspxThis is an interesting read, but for me, the big news is in the comments. He mentions:
"Windows 2000 support will show up with Silverlight 1.1. Our next public preview of Silverlight will be a big one (lots and lots of new features - which I'll be blogging about more later this year)."
Yes, Windows 2000 support and "lots of new features" being added to the 1.1 beta.
"I'll be doing a more indepth tutorial series on Silverlight development once I finish my LINQ to SQL series, and will talk about the complete feature set as part of that. The beta of Silverlight 1.1 will have many, many, many new big features - including a lot of controls work."
He will put together an article series soon, which following his great LINQ to SQL series, promises to be very helpful!
Also notice the "many, many, many, many big features". Oh, come on, how am I suppose to handle the wait now ;)
Finally, the "a lot of controls". Cool!!! Will be interesting to see just what wonderful gifts we receive ;)
One last point, when asked about Flex features, he said:
"In general yes. Silverlight will pretty much have a superset of Flex functionality. I'll be blogging more about some of the more application development features of Silverlight (controls, layout, databinding, styles/templates, application model, web services, data querying, etc) later this year."
Databinding!!! That one feature will be helpful!
Looks like 1.1 will be prime time Silverlight. Maybe they should have made it 2.0 Beta from the sounds of the feature increase.
I see many sleepless nights ahead :)