Welcome to the Silverlight 2.0 Resource Center. Silverlight 2.0 (formerly known as Silverlight 1.1), a competitor to Adobe Flash and Flex, is a cross-browser and cross-platform plug-in that allows you to deliver .NET–based RIAs (Rich Internet Applications)—including audio, video and animations—over the Web. Start your search here for Silverlight 2.0 resources, including sample applications, articles, tutorials, downloads, training courses, forums, FAQs, books, eBooks, sample chapters and more. In the Silverlight 2.0 Resource Center you’ll find links to: - Several Microsoft Quickstart tutorials including, “Getting Started with Silverlight Development,” “Building Dynamic User Interfaces with Silverlight,” “Networking and Communication in Silverlight,” and “Working with XML in Silverlight.”
- The Silverlight: Gallery: 2.0 Alpha Samples, from Microsoft, which includes over 70 Silverlight sample applications.
- Silverlight 2.0 “How do I” Videos.
- The sample chapter, “Introducing Silverlight,” from Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 2.0, 2/e, by Laurence Moroney.
- The eBook, Essential Silverlight 2.0, by Christian Wenz.
- The article, "Users Itching for Silverlight 2.0," by Darryl K. Taft.
- The Silverlight Development FAQ.
- The article, "Silverlight Overview," from IdeaBlade.
- The MSDN Silverlight Developer Center.
- The article, "Managed Code Shines in Silverlight 2.0," by Steven Porter.
- The article: “Silverlight Architecture Overview,” by Barak Cohen.
- The article, “Silverlight for Web Media Scenarios,” from Microsoft.
- The article: “Using Silverlight and RSS to Build a Hero Bar with ASP.NET,” by Laurence Moroney.
- The article, “Rich Internet Applications: Has Microsoft Finally Seen the “Silver” Light?” by Charlie Fink.
- The sample chapter: “Introducing Silverlight,” from Silverlight 2.0 in Action, by Chad A. Campbell.
- The tutorial, "Silverlight 2.0; How to Design the Blog Theme with Silverlight," by Michael Sync (senior software engineer in Microsoft .NET technologies and web services).
- The Silverlight Development FAQ.
- The blog, "Silverlight Geek," by Jesse Liberty.
- Silverlight 2.0 blogs, books, forums, tools, sample chapters and tutorials.
- And more...
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