Silverlight 2.0 has been somewhat of a mystery as well as what's next for ASP.NET MVC.

While neither of these are available yet, Vishal Joshi and Scott Guthrie have finally started blogging about what will be in them.

Silverlight 2.0 is the official name of what we now know as Silverlight 1.1 - the .NET version of Silverlight. There have been a number of issues with the current alpha version of Silverlight 1.1 that have made it challenging to work with and it's great to see that all of them (at least those which have been a problem for me) have been addressed in Silverlight 2.0. For me, most notable are lots of controls (including databinding), WCF support (without having to do major hacks), LINQ to XML support (without having to call out to a web service) and cross-domain support (again without having to create wrappers or multi-service calls to get around it).

Scott Guthrie wrote a blog post that includes links to an 8-part tutorial of working with Silverlight 2.0!

Scott says that SL2.0 is coming "soon". While I expect this will happen at MIX08, I won't complain if we get our hands on them a little sooner.

MVC is currently an early early preview with minimal tooling. Vishal has two blog posts describing the Visual Studio tools for MVC that are coming our way and will be previewed at MIX08. The first is Tooling Features Overview of ASP.NET MVC Framework for MIX 2008 and the second ASP.NET MVC Test Framework Integration