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

Silverlight 2.0 .NET Libraries

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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