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So I was reading Tim Sneath’s blog post about Silverlight v.Next getting rebranded to 2.0.  He goes into some new features and leaves out a few surprises.  Anyway, it looks like with this release they’re really trying to get Silverlight and WPF more consistent so its easy to build desktop apps that are easily portable to Silverlight.  They haven’t released anything yet so I can’t get very detailed but here’s a brief…

Adding the Common Language Runtime, Base Class Libraries, Dynamic Language Runtime, the UI Frameworks, DRM, etc.  The UI framework is supposedly the kicker (extensible control framework, two-way data binding, templates, styles, all the standard controls (TextBox, ScrollBar, CheckBox, RadioButton etc.), multiple layout containers (Grid, StackPanel, Canvas)), so we’ll see what they’ve been up to soon.

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