Microsoft recently made available the long awaited Beta 1 of Silverlight Version 2.0. This new version of Silverlight includes .NET language and framework support bringing cross-platform .NET development to live. Silverlight not only comes with the first iteration of rich controls which allow developers to design great user interfaces but also contains a pretty sophisticated network stack. In this blog post I'm going to take you through creating a Silverlight application which sends an HTTP POST request out to a (very basic PHP driven) service and prints out the response. While Silverlight implements higher level abstractions for accessing SOAP...