Silverlight 2 Beta 2 available

Microsoft has released the Second Beta of Silverlight 2.

Announcement on Scott Guthrie's blog.

The highlights:

• 4.8 MB Download that does not require .NET Framework on the target system
• The tools for VS 2008 will work with VS 2008 and VS 2008 SP1 beta
• Adds more controls to beta 1
• Cross-domain socket support
• Background thread networking
• Support for WCF duplex connections
• Datagrid improvements
• Databinding improvements
• Isolated storage is now 1MB with ability to prompt user to increase storage space

Note that if you want to use VS 2008 SP1 with SL 2 Beta 2, you should install VS 2008 SP1 beta first then the SL2B2 tools.