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Start downloading! Silverlight Beta 2 Released!

New features, more controls now in base with over 100+ expected soon..

And remember it has a *** GO LIVE licence!

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/06/06/silverlight-2-beta2-released.aspx

http://www.widgetslab.com/2008/06/06/silverlight-2-beta-2-is-out-better-faster-and-stronger/

http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/06/06/what-s-new-with-silverlight-tools-beta-2.aspx

Silverlight V2 Beta 2 and DeepZoom updated

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2008/06/06/silverlight-2-0-beta-2-and-deep-zoom-composer-update.aspx

Free new DataGrid Control for Silverlight

DevExpress announced they will be offering a FREE DataGrid control soon for Silverlight 2.0.

Features:

Data Grouping against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
Data Sorting against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
Comprehensive Summary Computation support against multiple Silverlight Grid columns
Column Movement
Column Resizing
Column Auto-Width
Row Editing
Row Preview (with animation)
Template Support (for cell content, cell editing, row preview and headers)
Auto Height Support for cells, headers, and totals.
Virtual StackPanel Row Container (simply means we are able to handle an unlimited number of rows)
Focused Row and Focused Cell
Multi-Row Selection
Cell Text Wrapping
Vertical/Horizontal Lines
Multiple column types/editors

It is free and comes with FULL SOURCE CODE!

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Components/Silverlight/Grid/

Great articles on Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and more

You need to visit this blog and browse through the articles, there are number of new ones just waiting for you:

* Getting started with Silverlight 2
* Important change to Sockets in Silverlight 2
* Silverlight 2 Beta 2 updates for web services
* Silverlight Streaming adds video upload fix
* A new Silverlight control - TabControl
* Silverlight and the VisualStateManager
* Skinning Silverlight controls just got easier

http://timheuer.com/blog/

Move Over, AJAX, ARAX Is Here

Ruby fan?

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Move-Over-AJAX-ARAX-is-Here/?kc=EWKNLEDP060608A

Data and Silverlight 2: Data Binding

Here is another quality article:

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/data-and-silverlight-2-data-binding/