Amidst all excitement on the new silverlight 1.0 service release, I saw something that interested me more than the update itself. Check out this quote:

our team has been cranking on for Silverlight v1.1 (controls, databinding, layout, templates, styling and a package based app model, phew!)

This of course means that we'll be getting a great full featured set when SilverLight 1.1 beta will be released. I am so excited about this next version! What we'll be getting looks cool:

• Controls: We definitely needed controls in 1.1. I have worked on some of my own layout controls and that is a lot of work. I hope they release these controls really soon.
• Databinding: This will of course be much better than doing everything in codebehind
• Layout: This one in combination with the new control set: I'm lovin' it.
• Templates: While trying to build my own controls I was trying to find a solution for templates. Apparently, the silverlight team is way ahead of me. Go! go!
• A package based app model. I have no idea what that'll accomplish.

Sadly enough, when I attended the TechEd Barcelona beginnen november this year, I have not heard one single person talk about these upcoming additions to silverlight. This is actually the first word I hear from the team about future plans with 1.1. So, in one sentence: Please give us another 1.1 alpha! (a beta would be better of course).

Edit: More big news: Visual Studio 2008 has been released. Please be aware that the release notes tell you that the SilverLight tools are not yet updated to work with the release, so if you need to work on SilverLight, you'll have to stick to VS2008 Beta 2 and have a little patience until the SilverLight tools are updated.