Silverlight 1.1 Update

Now that Silverlight 1.0 is out the door, my team is cranking hard on our Silverlight 1.1 release. 
Silverlight 1.1 will include a cross-platform version of the .NET Framework, and will enable a rich .NET development experience in the browser.  It will support a WPF programming model for UI - including support for an extensible control model, layout management, data-binding, control skinning, and a rich set of built-in controls.  It will also include a subset of the full .NET Framework base class library you use today, including support for collections, generics, IO, threading, globalization, networking (including sockets, web-services and REST support), HTML DOM, XML, local storage, and LINQ. 
You'll be able to use any .NET language to develop a Silverlight application (VB, C#, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Pascal, and more).  It is going to really open up a lot of new development opportunities.
How to Learn More about Silverlight
Visit the www.silverlight.net community site to learn more about Silverlight and how to get started with it (and visit the Silverlight video page for free short videos on how to develop with it).  You might also want to watch this new Channel9 video from today with me talking about Silverlight:
 
You can use any text editor to build Silverlight applications.  If you have VS 2008 or the free Visual Web Developer Express 2008 edition, you can  to get JavaScript intellisense for Silverlight 1.0.  If you are building .NET applications using the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha, you can download the Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 Alpha and Expression Blend Preview.
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