Microsoft Silverlight is a free runtime that powers rich application experiences and delivers high quality, interactive video across multiple platforms and browsers, using the .NET framework. It extends and amplifies your existing development skills, empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser.
We occasionally get customers asking us how they can get up to speed on Silverlight so please check out the links and materials below to help you get familiar with Silverlight.
USEFUL LINKS
Overview
Why Silverlight
Silverlight -Showcase
Silver Light Gallery
Silverlight - Wiki
SILVERLIGHT LEARNING RESOURCES
How to Install and Uninstall Silverlight
Silverlight Examples and Samples Download
How to use gradient color brush in Silverlight
How to display text with solid color brush
Hello World Silverlight Example with Tag
Install Silverlight
BOOK Resources:
Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, 2nd Edition
Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials
Data Services with Silverlight 2
Silverlight 2 in Action
Silverlight Video
Screen casts for Silverlight 2
Hands-On Labs
Silverlight Presentations
Silverlight for Mobile
Watch the following introductory videos for Silverlight 2
WHITE PAPERS
Getting started
Media & Animation
Silverlight Server Administration
TOOLKIT
Silverlight 2 Toolkit March 2009 Installer
Silverlight 3 Toolkit March 2009 Installer
Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Microsoft Expression Blend™ 2 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Expression Blend™ 2 Trial
Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Software Development Kit
Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio
Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Eclipse Tools for Silverlight
DOWNLOADS
Silverlight - Documentation on Administration
Free Ajax Code Generator!
Install Deep Zoom Composer
Microsoft Expression Blend
Expression Design
Silverlight Community
Microsoft® Expression® Encoder 2 Trial
Microsoft® Expression® Studio 2 Trial