Microsoft Silverlight
What is Microsoft Silverlight? Silverlight is a new technology introduced in 2006 to allow the creation of more compelling user experiences for web-based experiences. Silverlight was originally dubbed by the Internet community at large as a "Flash Killer" when its existence was announced, and the comparisons between Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight continue to be made. The technologies do, in fact, have a lot in common. Namely, the main goal of both technologies is to aid in the creation of Rich Internet Applications (RIA's); functional, online applications which go far beyond the limitations of traditional HTML and CSS.
Microsoft reached out to broadcasters at the 2007 NAB conference and to the designer/developer community at their own MIX '07 conference.
Some Microsoft Silverlight Features- Silverlight embraces vector artwork in a markup language Microsoft created called XAML
- The Silverlight plugin excels at video streaming, and boasts high definition (HD) streaming capabilities
- Programming Silverlight content can be achieved with a wide variety of languages (not just Microsoft languages either) including JavaScript, C#, Visual Basic, Ruby, Python (and more)
- The plugin is available for both Microsoft Windows and Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers
- As an effort outside of Microsoft, the Linux community has created a Silverlight plugin of their own
- On the PC, Silverlight plugins are available for Internet Explorer and Firefox
- On Macintosh computers, Silverlight is available for both Safari and Firefox
- Microsoft's Official Silverlight Web Site
- Silverlight development resources on MSDN
Microsoft Silverlight on Amazon
Dive into some Silverlight code with these books!
Silverlight 1.0
Amazon Price: $26.81 (as of 12/30/2009) 
Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed
Amazon Price: $34.19 (as of 12/30/2009)
XAML in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
Amazon Price: $22.79 (as of 12/30/2009)
Silverlight Plugin Content Elsewhere on the Internet
- Silverlight on Technorati
- Everything in the known universe about Microsoft's Silverlight.
- Method ~ of ~ Failed
- Microsoft Evangelist Tim Heuer's blog with musings about, among other things, Silverlight.
- Silverlight on Context
- All the articles about my brushes with Silverlight on my blog, "context".
- Silverlight on Tater Salad
- Casey Rayl's blog "Tater Salad" which has several in-depth Silverlight entries.
- Terralever's Silverlight game Zero Gravity
- A game that Terralever made using Microsoft's Alpha 1.1 Silverlight plug-in.
Microsoft Silverlight Plugin Poll
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Microsoft bloggers on Silverlight
Straight from the team at Microsoft's Redmond HQ - the dirt on what is happening with Silverlight!
Nibbles Tutorials Blog
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News
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See Microsoft Silverlight technology in action.
Zero Gravity - Microsoft Silverlight
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AOL Mail Development Community Page | dev.aol.com
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The Official Site of Major League Baseball: Multimedia: Latest Videos
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Silverlight Game: Bubble Factory
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Silverlight 1.0 RC Chess Viewer
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Silverlight "Surface" Demonstration
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Microsoft Silverlight Del.icio.us bookmarks
- Jeff Prosise's Blog : Silverlight's Big Image Problem (and What You Can Do About It)
- Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available - ScottGu's Blog
- Shawn Wildermuth - Architecting Silverlight 4 with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM - Part 1
- Get Started : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site
- Kodierer [Coder]: World# - Real Time 3D Augmented Reality with Silverlight - Rene Schulte - Coding .Net and Silverlight with C#
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