There is a great list of all of the new features in Silverlight 2 beta 2 at this link [http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2008/06/04/what-s-new-in-silverlight-2-beta-2.aspx] . The release is supposed to be out this week, which would be today or tomorrow, one would hope. A few highlights

Christian Schormann posted a video [http://electricbeach.org/?p=98] that demonstrates the new Visual State Manager (aka VSM). The quick and dirty is that the VSM allows you to customize the states of a control. This means you can change the visual presentation of a control for its mouseover state, p

I mentioned last night [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/windows-live-writer-plugin-for-dotnetkicks-alpha/] that I wrote a DotNetKicks PlugIn for Windows Live Writer [http://www.codeplex.com/wlwplugin4dnk] using the new June 2008 Technical Preview release that came out this week. My first pass at the pl

Somasegar [http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/06/03/on-stage-at-the-teched-2008-keynote.aspx] was on-stage today at TechEd and announced that Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is going to be released with a GoLive license this week. This also will include a Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview and tools to VS2

About a month ago I started writing a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that would insert a DotNetKicks link into the post [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/dotnetkicks-plugin-for-windows-live-writer/]. I got it working but I was not satisfied with the workarounds I had to use. The post url was not access