http://msmvps.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=app:weblogs&tag=vs2008,UserGroup&orTags=0&o=DateDescendingSearch results for 'app:weblogs' matching tags 'vs2008' and 'UserGroup'en-USCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/archive/2008/03/06/ie_2D00_8_2D00_beta1_2D00_and_2D00_sl20_2D00_today.aspxThu, 06 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1535454Chakravarthy<p><a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_2.png"><img style="border-top-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;" border="0" alt="image" src="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_thumb.png" width="676" height="287" /></a> </p> <p>Today, I&#39;ve downloaded IE8 beta 1 as well as Silverlight 2.0 installed on my laptop. This day have seen many products released at <a href="http://visitmix.com/2008/default.aspx" target="_blank">Mix 08</a> by great personalities like <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx" target="_blank">Scott Guthrie</a>,&nbsp; <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bobfamiliar/default.aspx" target="_blank">Bob Familiar</a>, <a href="http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg" target="_blank">Guy Burstein</a>, <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx" target="_blank">IEBlog</a>, etc. According to <a href="http://www.visitmix.com/blogs/Joshua/IE8-Activities-With-Jane-Kim/" target="_blank">Jane Kim at an interview for Mix08</a>, Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8.</p> <p><a href="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_4.png"><img style="border-top-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;" border="0" alt="image" src="http://msmvps.com/blogs/chakravarthy/WindowsLiveWriter/IE8Beta1andSL2.0Today_12F94/image_thumb_1.png" width="483" height="379" /></a></p> <p>Apart of IE8.0 and SL2.0, there are other products such as</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32A3E916-E681-4955-BC9F-CFBA49273C7C&amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank">Expression Blend 2.5 March</a> CTP <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7FF7142B-84AD-4871-8E2A-EF37147AC760&amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank">Expression Web 2</a> Beta <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank">Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for VS2008</a></li></ul> <p>I&#39;ve downloaded all these .. and am trying out one by one .. what about you??</p>