Hope everyone had a chance to download and play with the Silverlight 2.0 Beta1 bits. I wanted to put up a quick post detailing the features we have shipped in this Beta. We have shipped total of 5 features split across 5 assemblies. Core Assembly: System.Runtime.Serialization.dll - Data Cont... [More]

Marshaling data to unlike platforms has always been a problem. In the past, vendors could not even agree on a marshaling format, let alone a common type system. Microsoft used COM (component object model) for its distributed object model and marshaling format; it did not support CORBA (common object... [More]