Good news for all Silverlight and Visual developers. Silverlight 5 Beta is here and it brings with it a whole new set of features and rich customizations. For those who are still unaware of Silverlight, it is Microsoft's equivalent of Adobe Flash. If you are a developer and really excited to check out the all new Silverlight 5, then all you will be needing is the Visual Studio 2010 (SP1) and the Silverlight 5 tools.

Silverlight 5 has a lot of new features which can help developers create engaging content. Here are a few of those features:

• Double and Multi click support

• XAML debugging

• improved media support and rich UI capabilities

• Networking and WCF enhancements

• Low latency sound effects and support for WAV

• New RichTextBoxOverflow element

• New 3D Graphics API that lets you create cool 3D applications

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