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Understanding Silverlight releases - Tim Heuer

published 960 days, 20 hours, 17 minutes ago posted by

jantu 962 days, 23 hours, 25 minutes ago

I’m not sure why Microsoft doesn’t have a standard on these things and it’s funny to hear marketing teams argue the benefit of one name over the other. For what it is worth, in my eyes, if it isn’t a major milestone release (or at least a ‘dot’ release [4.0->4.1 for example] then it is a service update. Call it a GDR, Wave X, Service Pack, R2, blah blah.In the GDR1 release (version 4.0.50826.0) we also released an update to the SDK. This is where it can start get confusing…allow me to attempt to explain. GDR1 released: