Silverlight 2 – The release candidate and next steps

On Thursday night we published the first public release candidate for Silverlight 2, described in some detail by Scott Guthrie.  This is a developer-only release and you can learn all about what it is and how to get it in a terrific blog post by Tim.

Starting immediately,  I'll be re-focusing this blog on clarifying what has changed, how it affects your programming and what you need to know to get ready for release.

As of today, I am making a commitment to you to have a meaningful blog entry published every day by 1pm Eastern (GMT –5).  By every day I mean… every day.

It is my goal for this blog to become the go-to resource on a day to day basis and for there to be a substantive Silverlight article here every day. 1pm.  Look for less clutter, more signal, less noise.

To kick things off, today I'll be blogging on a change in how you create the default appearance of custom controls (in generic.xaml) in the release candidate.  Look for it by 1pm.

About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a Microsoft MVP.
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