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Here are some interesting posts about Silverlight 2 RTW Release:
- Scott Guthrie and Silverlight 2 Released;
- Tim Heuer and Silverlight 2 Released: New controls, tools, announcements;
- Jesse Liberty and Silverlight 2 Release Guide.

We remind you that you can start with Silverlight 2 RTW here.

Silverlight’s XAML Vocabulary Specification has been published. – “…The Silverlight XAML vocabulary specification, released under the Open Specification Promise (OSP), will better enable third-party ISVs to create products that can read and write XAML for Silverlight…” What more could we say?!

RadControls for Silverlight 2 - RTW update by Valentin Stoychev – Now all Silverlight controls of Telerik are compatible with the latest release of Silverlight. The update is now available for download from your client.net account.

Andy Beaulieu reported that most of his games are already converted and compatible with Silverlight 2 RTW. Isn’t that a fast reaction?!

Silverlight Spy is also compatible with Silverlight 2 RTW. Go and download it for free. More information on the topic can be found here.

Clipboard support in Silverlight 2 by Rob Houweling – Silverlight 2 does not have built-in clipboard support, but if you need the copy/paste functionality this post is a great starting point.

Check out the new job ‘Microsoft Silverlight Software Development, Video Technology’ posted in our Job Section. Please note that you have to be a registered user in order to see the job details.

Important! Currently we are updating all of the SilverlightShow articles including their source code to Silverlight 2 RTW. This might take a while, so if there are any particular articles that are important to you and should be updated as soon as possible please contact us and we will do our best to convert them first.

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