I am very excited about Silverlight Beta2 shipping recently ...  I took a few minutes to update my recent sample " Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight " post to Beta2.  While I was at it, I thought I'd take advantage of the new Visual State Manager (VSM) feature to simplify some of the UI.  VSM is a new Beta2 feature of Silverlight (and soon WPF) that makes it much easier to define and transition between UI states in your application.  For more information  check out Christian Schormann’s VSM blog post and this great VSM screen cast and associated demo files which I stole from... ah, I mean "leveraged" in this example.  Download:  Silverlight...(read more)Go to the complete details ...