Microsoft has released Release Candidate 0 of Silverlight 2 today. This release is intended for developers to allow them to test there application and bring it up to speed with changes for the release. Tim Heuer has an excellent post explaining the details. If you’re developing for Silverlight 2 go read.

It’s exciting times in Silverlight Land!

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Earlier this spring the Microsoft Patterns & Practices group released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF, or Prism. Initially released for WPF, the team has been continuing their work, expanding the scope to include WPF and Silverlight.

The direction they are taking includes the ability to build applications that can provide both both Silverlight and WPF experiences through sharing and re-using code and components between the two environments. I’ve honestly learned a lot digging into Prism 1, and look forward into digging deeper into the new bits in the week ahead.

David Hill has a great post that includes more details here.

Congrats to the Prism 2.0 team on getting this turned around so quickly!

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After doing that "Seinfeld thing" Microsoft has released a series of ads standing up for PC. I wonder if I should send in an "I own a Mac, but it runs Vista" clip?

The full set is available here

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