Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 下载地址

Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 于 2008年6月6日发布，下载地址（大小为84.3 MB，含Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Runtime 和the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK）为：

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/d/d/1dd9ba72-9023-42f8-8ddf-abbd2f87649c/silverlight_chainer.exe

Silverlight 2 for Windows 运行时下载地址：

http://silverlight.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/8/B/A/8BA7FCB0-832B-47A9-9786-08FDF3822879/Silverlight.2.0.exe

Microsoft Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 2下载地址（大小56.1 MB）：

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/4/a/b4a5b488-751b-430c-8ee3-4cc2e0959c54/silverlight_sdk.exe

重要提示：安装之前建议先阅读这篇文章，这篇文章介绍了几种安装方法

http://weblogs.asp.net/bradleyb/archive/2008/06/06/upgrading-to-silverlight-beta-2-and-visual-studio-2008-sp1-beta.aspx

安装注意事项：

• 必须安装 Visual Studio 2008 标准版及其以上版本。 Visual Studio 2008 安装时必须勾选 Visual Web Developer。
• 要卸载以前版本 Silverlight 相关的所有东西。
• 如果先前已经安装了 Silverlight Tools Beta 1，必须在安装 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta 之前卸载 KB949325。

Silverlight 2 Beta 2功能列表：

特性	Silverlight 1.0	Silverlight 2 Beta 2
2D Vector Animation/Graphics
AJAX Support
Cross-Browser (Firefox, IE, Safari)
Cross-Platform (Windows, Mac)
Framework Languages (Visual Basic, Visual C#, IronRuby, Ironpython)	-
HTML DOM Integration
HTTP Networking
Isolated Storage	-
JavaScript Support
JSON, REST, SOAP/WS-*, POX, and RSS Web Services (as well as support for Sockets)	-
ADO.NET Data Services	-
Cross Domain Network Access	-
LINQ to Objects	-
Canvas Layout Support
StackPanel, Grid and Panel Layout Support	-
Managed Control Framework	-
Full suite of Controls (TextBox, RadioButton, Slider, Calendar, DatePicker, DataGrid, ListBox, TabControl, and others)	-
Deep Zoom Technology	-
Managed HTML Bridge	-
Managed Exception Handling	-
Media – Content Protection	-
Media – 720P High Definition (HD) Video
Media – Audio/Video Support (VC-1, WMV, WMA, MP3)
Media – Image Support (JPG, PNG)
Media Markers
Rich Core Framework (e.g. Generics, collections)	-
Security Enforcement	-
Silverlight ASP.NET Controls (asp:media, asp:xaml)
Type Safety Verification	-
Windows Media Server Support
XAML Parser (based on WPF)
XMLReader/Writer	-