I've been playing with Beta 2 for a little bit and here is what I have noticed so far. It seems to be pretty slow (although this may be because I have Nero burning stuff right now). I tried to get the Alert system to work on it and typed datasets from 1.1 don't seem to get converted right (I noticed that in Beta 1 as well). You keep getting an error about the namespace not being recognized when you try to compile. So I then just made a reference to my 1.1 assembly and it was actually able to send a message but there was a problem with one of the callbacks being null (no idea why on that one) which caused the application to crash. So far, it's been a bad time, but I'll continue to work with it.
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