Silverlight 2 Beta 2正式发布

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 includes a number of incremental improvements based on customer feedback.   Changes include improvements to controls, templating, Deep Zoom, performance, further compatibility with WPF, and much more. For a full list of changes, see below:

·          Animation1.       Support for animating custom data points2.       Object Animation support (animating structs)

·          DeepZoom1.        New file format completely XML based. Also, there will be a new Deep Zoom Composer tool that will allow you to create these new file types. 2.        MultiScaleTileSource (implement a tile source to existing tile databases)3.        Better notifications when sub-images enter the view

·          Controls1.       New TabControl2.       DataGrid improvements: Autosize, Reorder, Sort, Performance increase, and more3.       Calendar now supports multi-selection and blackout dates4.       Improved Templating Model: Visual State Manager5.       Control properties changes (Background, Tooltip, FontFamily, FontSize…)6.       Including controls in the runtime instead of having them packaged in app package

·          TextBox1.       IME Level 3 input support on Windows and Level 1 on Mac2.       Text wrapping and multiline selection highlighting in textbox3.       Scrollbar Support4.       Document Level Navigation keys

·          Improvements in error handling, reporting

·          Property System/Parser1.       DependencyProperty.Register/RegisterAttached now supports PropertyMetadata2.       DependencyObject.ClearValue3.       Visual Tree Helper

·          Data Binding1.       Per-binding level validation2.       Support for element syntax for binding markup extension3.       Binding to Attached Properties4.       ItemsControl Extensibility (OnItemsChanged method)5.       Fallback in Value Conversion (Binding.UnsetValue)

·          Input1.       Limited keyboard support in FullScreen mode (arrow, tab, enter, home, end, pageup/pagedown, space)2.       Managed APIs for Inking

·          Networking and Data1.       Cross Domain support in Sockets2.       Cross Domain security enhancements3.       BrowserHttpWebRequest and WebClient callable from BackGround Threads4.       Upload support for WebClient5.       UI for isolated storage (ability to change quota)6.       Duplex communications (“push” from Server to Silverlight client)7.       LINQ-to-JSON 8.       Configuration support for web service proxies 9.       Significantly improved SOAP interop10.   “Add New Item” template in Visual Studio for “Silverlight-enabled WCF Service”11.   ADO.NET Data Services support

·          UIAutomation and Accessibility support in platform

·          Media1.       Platform support for Adaptive streaming2.       Silverlight DRM, Powered by PlayReady3.       Basic SSPL support

·          Localization1.        Changes in application model for multilingual apps (one xap per supported locale)2.        Expanded localization languages of runtime and SDK

·          Several changes for WPF compatibility

·          Remote Debugging for VB on Mac

·          CLR1.        Developer Runtime Package facilitate development (localized strings, debugging binaries, etc)2.        Support the OS fallback logic for resources3.        CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture Isolation

·          DLR1.        Performance improvements2.        Various new DLR and IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 language features3.        Various new IronRuby Features