yay, at last!!  Microsoft have released the first beta version of Silverlight 2, formerly Silverlight 1.1

Looking at the post (http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/03/05/asp-mediaplayer-and-asp-silverlight-controls-update.aspx), there looks to be some really nice controls out-of-the-box, including asp:MediaPlayer and a raft of asp:SilverLight stuff

Highly exciting stuff.  Also, i hear they've overcome the asynchronous file upload via some special privilege method whereby client-side code can access user-verified files and upload them so i'm eager to see how this works in production

Feature rich comparedf to the previous version >> http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx

and an SDK for Visual Studio 2008 >>  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&displaylang=en

Yarr :¬)