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• Silverlight 2 Beta 2

  A promised Beta 2 was released later last week. In this case, later meant Friday after everyone went home so I updated the original article with a link to the download over the weekend. That means this doesn't count as the post for today. Scott Guthrie has a more detailed release announcement for the beta if you're interested. Read More... Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 8:00 AM from Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, Announcements, Releases, Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Coming

  At TechEd yesterday the next beta release of Silverlight 2 was announced to come out later this week. In Beta 2 you'll be much closer to seeing the complete subset of WCF that has been ported to the Silverlight platform. In particular, the work we've done around JSON, configuration, extensibility, and adherence to the general WCF client programming model will be ready for you to play with. All of this functionality has been packed down into an extremely small download size to meet the goals of Silverlight. You'll also be getting a better WCF experience thanks to improvements to the underlying network stack that we've been able to take advantage of. Check back later for an update when the downloads are actually available. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:00 AM from Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, Announcements, Silverlight

• Books Before Bytes

  I noticed the other day that O'Reilly has a new book format for prerelease software that relies on planning for and making incremental updates as the software is developed. After the software is released, the prerelease book and all of its updates are cleaned up and turned back into a book with standard formatting. It looks like a Silverlight 2 book is being used as the test subject. I think this approach is interesting as a response to how quickly software is developed and then obsoleted these days. Additionally, software is being developed with increasing amounts of transparency. Customers get early builds and trickles of information long before the official release date, and often while the software is still very malleable. By the time software is stable enough to write a real book about it, you've already missed the best window for publication for that release. Read More... Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 8:00 AM from Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Announcements, Silverlight

• WCF Silverlight Blog

  I haven't had nearly as much time as I wanted to write about our efforts porting WCF to the Silverlight platform or tell you about what we've managed to build. I'm still planning to do feature highlight posts along the way but your best source of day-to-day information is going to be the WCF Silverlight team blog . Read More... Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:00 AM from Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, Announcements, Silverlight

• TIBCO Announces WCF Integration

  At their user conference in San Francisco yesterday, TIBCO announced two integration initiatives to bring the TIBCO and Microsoft platforms closer together. TIBCO is developing a TIBCO EMS transport channel for WCF. Although Microsoft doesn't have a formal certification process for releasing third-party WCF components, I got to do some code and design reviews over the last few months with the TIBCO developers to understand the work that they are doing. I am very pleased that it was possible to make TIBCO EMS fit naturally into the WCF model. This integration work benefits both Microsoft and TIBCO customers by expanding the reach of applications on each platform. I fully support the partner ecosystem in delivering WCF components and connectivity options that go beyond what Microsoft provides in the framework. TIBCO is also going to be making use of Silverlight for development and deployment of Internet applications. Silverlight allows developers to reuse much of the tooling and knowledge that they have from desktop development when creating browser-based applications. Read More... Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:00 AM from Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Indigo, Announcements, Transports, Channels, Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Ships

  If you didn't watch the MIX keynote yesterday then you missed out on the debut of Silverlight 2. You can still go back and watch the Day 1 Keynote or carry on with these resources. Microsoft® Silverlight TM 2 Software Development Kit Beta 1 Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 Scott Guthrie tours Silverlight 2 Beta 1 on Channel 9 You'll also want to take advantage of the early documentation that's available for Silverlight 2. Since Silverlight 2 is a subset of the full .NET Framework, for the most part you can jump back to the Orcas documentation when details are missing. Breaking Changes in Silverlight 2 Silverlight 2 Reference Documentation Getting Started with Networking and Communication in Silverlight 2 How to Work with Web Services in Silverlight 2 More content will be coming online from MIX today, including the Day 2 Keynote and all of the technical sessions from Day 1. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:00 AM from Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog | 1 Comments Filed under: Indigo, Announcements, SDK, Releases, MIX, Silverlight