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The Beta 2 is a big improvement from the beta 1. For the whole list of improvements click here. But to take a few that I found interesting:
Push for WCF - Visual States : Creating Control Skins with Visual State Manager - An Introduction
- Object Animation
- TabControl
- Upload for WebClient
- Multiple XAP localization support
- Cross Domain Socket support
Especially looking forward to the WCF push mechanism. For chat, games or even enterprise application notification. And the Visual State Manager is going to make my work a whole lot easier.
Will try to go into more details the following weeks.
I’m off to see how much of my SL2 applications don’t work anymore 
- Click here to down download Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 and Blend June 2.5
- And here for Scott’s post on it
SL2 B2 is Compatible with 1.0 but not with the B1. So when a user visits a website with a B2 application, he will be prompted to install B2. All B1 sites from that moment on will not work anymore. So you need to update your B1 applications soon. Read the following posts from Shawn Wildermuth for more information on updating.
Stay in the light!
Robertjan Tuit
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Don’t bother..they won’t work at all without the silverlight tools or sdk. There is a new object type that breaks everything and just gives you a white screen. application/x-silverlight-2-b2. Supposedly they are going to release another build of the plugin as well when they release the tools/sdk. A sad day of wait and hope to see if “by the end of the week” really means friday.