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Today, Expression Blend 2 December CTP has been made available! It's the tool for WPF, Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 (soon to be called 2.0) projects. It works smoothly with Expression Design (now in SP1) and Visual Studio 2008.

At a first glance, I am still missing the possibility to use the tool to add events to my Silverlight projects, but the new "Objects and Timeline" control is wonderful, allowing me to create, duplicate, reverse, delete and rename my storyboards.

Also, code synchronization in the split view is a good thing. As soon as I select a XAML object in the designer, the corresponding code is highlighted. Nice.

Remember that you will need to install the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 to get the Silverlight 1.1 project tpye in Expression Blend 2.