Silverlight 2 RC0 has just been released with some new features including:

• New Controls (Password Box, Progress Bar, Combo Box)
• New Control Skins
• New Graphics Rendering methods for crisper lines and fewer artefacts
• Various API updates

Read more about this release at: ScottGu's Blog
Download the new release here

I have just gotten back from doing a presentation for SA Developer entitled “Silverlight 2: A developer's perspective” and thought to post the demo project and slides for all those interested. So here they are:

Sildes (540.60 kb)
Project Files (171.14 kb)

To be able to run these you will need to install the Silverlight SDK which you can get hold of here.

Life is quite busy at the moment so I hope to post a proper blog entry with the details of this talk early October but if I forget please bug me about it.

Some links that may help you get going with Silverlight 2 are:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx
http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2008/03/27/10290.aspx
http://www.silverlight.net

Hope you find this useful. Drop me a line with any questions you may have.