Microsoft releases Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0

Microsoft has released RC0 for Silverlight 2 to allow developers to have time get used to the new changes before releasing to end users. Scott Guthrie posted a good overview of the updates that were included in the RC0 release. You can read a complete list of the breaking change from here.

 Here are some of the new changes in this release:

• PasswordBox control added
• ProgressBar control added
• ComboBox control added
• New control templates (they’re much cleaner than the previous ones IMHO)
• API changes here and there and elimination of some assemblies such as System.Wondows.Controls.Extended

Downloads:

• Visual Studio 2008 Tools RC0:  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129043
• Expression Blend SP1 RC0:  http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx?filter=prerelease 
• Windows Silverlight 2 Dev Runtime RC0:  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=129011