Silverlight 2 is released, available for download 10-14-2008

The final version will be here tomorrow. More information from Microsoft can be found here. If you are a developer, you can reference some additional resources here for books, etc. The Common User Interface for medical records uses Silverlight and you can find additional information on the site here.

There are some new tools available as well for open source Eclipse which are available, but not yet complete.

“The Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight Project will integrate advanced Silverlight development capabilities into the Eclipse IDE and Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).

The XAML and Silverlight projects created by Eclipse will be fully supported by both Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Studio tools.”

So as an end user you may be needing to update your browser with the latest version soon. BD

Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the DNC, the bits are going to be out there. The press release includes some impressive numbers.

One is that Microsoft is going to be working with Soyatec to bring Silverlight development capabilities to Eclipse, which in theory means that we could finally have Mac and possibly even Linux development tools for Silverlight.