Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Hiya Jesse,

I took some notes while listening (and asking questions) to the teleconference. A small transcript can be found on my site (www.nathanbrouwer.nl/default.aspx).

Cheers, keep up the good work.

Hi Jesse -

I have existing Silverlight 2 Beta 2 applications that are being used within my company's site, and to minimize downtime, I will be releasing the RTW version as soon as it comes out. Can you let us know when exactly the release will take place (what time)?

So what is Microsoft doing with the tools?  It would have been nice to let developers update the programs or at least be able to do a rebuild with RTM before it is out.

Now the scenario is that you can have clients install the plug-in before the developers can get the tools.

I"m still trying to finger out if there there are improvements to the text rendering engine.

I'm salivating over confirmation.

Jesse Do we get RTL languages support ? like Hebrew?

This release is a bit early. Developers (including myself) are still finding and reporting significant bugs in RC0. Our hope was that you'd wait until at least PDC (the logical place for such a launch) to give yourselves more time to fix these bugs.... Now we'll have to find workarounds. I dislike workarounds... a lot.

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So what is Microsoft doing with the tools?  It would have been nice to let developers update the programs or at least be able to do a rebuild with RTM before it is out.

Well, from the conference it was mentioned the tools will be updated. I do agree the time schedule is tight though. Advice from MS was to download the new toolset, do a rebuild (which should be no problem since there are no breaking changes) and do a publish.

I do agree though that updating from beta 2 to rc0 is a pain and is quite a lot of work. Given this, maybe they should have given us a bit more time (though, we also complain when they take too long).

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 fertig gestellt

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Upgrading from RC0 to RTM is trivial, there are no breaking changes SO theoretically your RC0 version should work for RTM.

I know all mine did..

It's interesting that you mentioned Eclipse, yesterday I was playing with Aptana (an IDE based on Eclipse that tagetss Javascript and Ruby), Rails, Ruby, Iron Ruby and Silverline (an extension to Rails).

The dev experience is good, the tools support isn't there yet, but it's a really interesting concept. Basically it allows Rails to reuse, Ruby code that runs in the Server and IronRuby code that can be run in the client using the DLR and Silverlight, using existing concepts of Rails like RJSs.

Pre-PDC Announcements

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Jesse Liberty tegnap megerősítette, amit már eddig is tudtunk, nevezetesen a SL 2 Release

If you have a Beta 2 release that you need to keep working for whatever reason...just simply make sure you turn off the updates on the Silverlight client you are using tomorrow.  This will keep the application working until you need to, as it won't update the plugin automatically.

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Silverlight 2.0 sar

Kuulujutud vastavad tõele, Silverlight 2.0 on jõudnud lõpuks RTW (Release to Web) staatusesse - ei ole

Good news Specially about SL plugin for Eclipse.

I have checked that only odd thing is its final release is too Far away [may be about the time when SL 3.0 will be ready]

waited over 1 day, still no release yet~~~

Silverlight 2 RTW

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