Today by Hijri Calender is my birthday, and today is the day the web development has changed for the good, coincidence? perhaps symbolic?

Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 Downloads are here

Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 Plug in Rutime

Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 SDK

Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Includes SDK)

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Overview of Libraries in Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1

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NOTE: This is the overview of the base libraries of .NET Framework, complete libraries may/may not be available for Silverlight 2.0

Silverlight 2.0 Beta is huge compared to Silverlight 1.1 Alpha not just in terms of including the base libraries but also in providing extra sub classes within the libraries.

For example, Silverlight 1.1 Alpha included only three sub classes for System.Security.Cryptography

1. RNGCryptoServiceProvider
2. CryptographicException
3. RandomNumberGenerator

Where as Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 includes about 20 sub classes

1. Aes
2. AesManaged
3. CryptographicException
4. CryptographicUnexpectedOperationException
5. CryptoStream
6. DeriveBytes
7. HashAlgorithm
8. HMAC
9. HMACSHA1
10. HMACSHA256
11. KeyedHashAlgorithm
12. KeySizes
13. RandomNumberGenerator
14. Rfc2898DeriveBytes
15. RNGCryptoServiceProvider
16. SHA1
17. SHA1Managed
18. SHA256
19. SHA256Managed
20. SymmetricAlgorithm

The party begins, Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 Documentation is up on MSDN.