Looking for a great, concise, just-get-to-the-point, intro to programming RIA's using Silverlight 2.0? Bob Familiar, one of my rock-star colleagues from the Northeast, has just released a 3-part "blog series" on how to develop Silverlight 2.0 applications - specifically for use in his own music site (Sounds Familiar).   

You can check it out here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bobfamiliar/archive/2008/04/04/rich-internet-applications-using-silverlight-2-0.aspx

Here are the individual links to the series articles: 

• Part 1 - Rich Internet Application Architecture
• Part 2 - Developing, Deploying and Invoking WCF Services from Silverlight 2.0 Applications
• Part 3 - Silverlight Controls, Data Binding, Templates and Styles

Oh, and while you're there - by all means check out his music compositions - my personal favorite is the title track from "Islands of Langerhans".