Moonlight 2.0 Beta: Open source version for Silverlight

Silverlight 3 was announced by Microsoft to be considered a competitor to Adobe Flash technology, but the software can only be used on Windows. To solve this problem, Microsoft and Novel collaborated to develop the open source version of Moonlight for Silverlight.

The next version of Moonlight 1.0 was released in February this year, the vice president for operating systems development Novel and Miguel de Icaza founder Mono recently announced, the first Beta of Moonlight 2.0 has been completed.

Icaza said that the functions of Moonlight 2.0 are complete, and more can be tried for websites using Silverlight 2.0. Users who have previously installed Moonlight 2.0 version when opening Firefox browser will be upgraded to the latest version. If users have not installed Moonlight, you can download it directly from the Mono homepage.

Although Silverlight has many new functions and APIs, it takes a lot of time to upgrade, during this time Moonight will catch up with Silverlight's processes. In addition, Moonight 2.0 has some features of Silverlight 3.0, such as SaveFileDialog, MultiScaleImage 3.0 API, WriteableBitmap .

Download address: http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight-beta/