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Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features
such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback which
characterize rich Internet applications.

It is a free framework empowering you
to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target
platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and
tools of the .NET framework.

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
  

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