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Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.


Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is available

Silverlight 2 provides a framework that makes building rich Web applications much easier. Get the latest information from the Silverlight community site.

Silverlight Around the World

Visit the Silverlight Showcase to see how over 200 websites around the world are using Silverlight to deliver next-generation Web experiences.

Download the Final Release of Silverlight 1.0!

Get the released version of Silverlight 1.0, the Silverlight 10 SDK, as well as a new September refresh of the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha  and SDK.

Scott Guthrie’s blog

Scott Guthrie is the General Manager of the team that is responsible for architecting .NET and Silverlight.

Scott Guthrie's Blog
Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released
Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today.  You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here. Beta2 adds a lot of new features (more details below), but is still a 4.6 MB dow... more
ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express
Last week I blogged about the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release.  One important thing I forgot to mention about this release is that you can now use it with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition.... more

Method~of~Failed

Tim Heuer is a former Microsoft developer evangelist and current Program Manager for Silverlight.

Method of Failed
Accessing Amazon S3 with Silverlight
I ran into an interesting situation last week…the desire to access some of my Amazon S3 services from within a Silverlight application. Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3) is a pay service provided Amazon for object storage ‘in the cloud.’ Although t... more
Updating Silverlight.js
I’m hoping this post will help explain a few things with regard to Silverlight detection scripts that some sites may be using. This is related to the silverlight.js Javascript file that was deployed with a lot of Silverlight 1.0 applications/sites an... more

Adam Kinney's Blog

Adam loves talking about UI platforms like Silverlight, WPF and Microsoft Surface from a developer and designer perspective.

Adam Kinney's Blog
Two new Silverlight Contests
The first contest is the Silverlight Control Builder Contest put on by a few people you might know Page Brooks and Silverlight Cream's David Campbell. Custom controls submitted will be judged on their usefulness, creativity, experience and how eas... more
Building a Simple Custom Control in Silverlight 2
With the recent announcement of the Silverlight Controls Builder Contest, I thought it may be useful to post code that creates a very simple custom control.  The example I'm posting isn't even worth a screenshot as all the control does is rend... more

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek

Jesse's business cards really do say Silverlight Geek.

Jesse Liberty's Blog
July 9. Celebrating A First Very Happy Year At Microsoft…
    and thanking you all for your support and shared excitement as Silverlight evolves.     istockPhoto; rights reserved ... more
Tutorial on Styles & Templates Now Available
I’m very pleased to announce that my latest tutorial, on Styles, Templates and the Visual State Manager is now available, in HTML, or as a PDF, and the complete source code is available as well. The Visual State Manager is a very exciting part of t... more

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