Tasks in Silverlight…

Yep, the RC for Silverlight 5 now supports Tasks. You can do your own parallel processing in Silverlight 5 now.

Oh, and here are some of the other features:

• P/Invoke (Native function calls)
• 64 Bit
• Vector Printing
• Remote Control and Media Command Support (I have no idea what this is.. time to do some reading)
• DataContextChanged Event
• In-Browser Trusted Applications
• PivotViewer Control
• Power Awareness

All in all, some cool features seem to be coming..

More reading is here

Enjoy.