Silverlight is an effort from Microsoft to challenge Adobe Flash and Action Script as the
de facto platform for developing Rich Internet Applications and Video streaming. Silverlight has started to gain momentum in the Rich Internet Applications space. I am taking this opportunity to list down few resources which will help aspiring Silverlight developers and designers in their work.
Silverlight and related Development & Design Tools
Silverlight Development Tools
1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
2. Silverlight 1.0 Software Development Kit
3. Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 Software Development Kit
4. Silverlight 2 Tools Beta 1 for MS Visual Studio 2008
5. Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtime for Windows
6. Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtime for Mac
7. Silverlight 1.0 Runtime for Windows and Mac
Silverlight Design and Content Creation Tools
9. Microsoft Expression Studio and Expression Studio 2 Beta
10 .ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight
11. Expression Web for creating standard based sites
12. Expression Design for illustrations and graphic designing
13. Expression Blend and Expression Blend 2.5 Preview version
14. Expression Media for managing media assets
15. Expression Encoder for transcoding videos
Learning Silverlight
Silverlight Introduction and Overview Resources
17. Microsoft Silverlight Overview and Silverlight 1.0 & 2.0 Beta comparison
18. Silverlight Overview on MSDN
19. Explanation of Silverlight Architecture
20. Introduction to Silverlight and XAML
21. First look at Silverlight 2 by Scott Guthrie
22. Silverlight 2.0 Roadmap by Ashish Thapliyal
Technical and How-to Articles and Resources
23. Getting started with Silverlight
24. Silverlight Technical articles on MSDN
25. Silverlight 2 development with .NET Framework
26. Silverlight 1.0 development with JavaScript
27. ASP Alliance’s set of Silverlight learning articles
28. Wynapse Silverlight tutorial series
29. WPF and XAML learning series on Coding for Fun – 5 part
30. Silverlight 1.1 Developer Reference
31. Silverlight learning center for developers
32. Silverlight learning center for designers
33. Silverlight 1.0 for Mobile
34. Silverlight 1.0 Quick Start guides
35. Silverlight Quick Start with Expression Blend
36. Silverlight 2.0 Beta Quick Start Guide
37. Using Silverlight with RSS and ASP.NET
38. Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Animation overview
39. Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Video and Audio overview
40. Rich Internet Applications using Silverlight series by Bob Familiar
41. Silverlight 2 Map/Data Grid Part 1 and Part 2 by Jason Zender
42. The Deep Zoom Primer by Jaime Rodriguez
43. Encoding screen recordings for Silverlight tutorial by Ben Waggoner
44. Silver 2 Fundamentals – Zip package of tutorials by Tim Sneath
45. Silverlight Web Services Team Blog
46. How to configure Web server for Silverlight content hosting by Tim Sneath
47. Accessibility with Silverlight
48. Windows Presentation Foundation Hands-on Labs
49. Silverlight @ Hands-on Labs
Silverlight Related How-to Videos
50. How Do I – Silverlight 1.0, a list of 70 videos
51. Silverlight 2 How-to Videos
52. Silverlight with Expression Blend how to videos – 30 videos
53. Silverlight with Expression Design video tutorials
54. Silverlight 1.0 with Expression Media how-to videos
55. Silverlight 1.0 with Expression Web videos
56. Free Silverlight Essential Training video on Lynda
57. Getting started with Expression Design and Expression Blend on Lynda – paid subscription
58. Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample – 3 part tutorial
59. Sharepoint Silverlight Blueprint webcasts
60. Silverlight for Mobile demo – Videos from MIX
61. Silverlight Videos on Channel9 – 56 videos collection
62. Silverlight with Terminal Services and Robotics
63. Silverlight for Games – Case Study
Silverlight eBooks and Books
64. Esseential Silverlight by O’Reilly Media (Free Download at Rapidshare)
65. Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed by Adam Nathan (Free Download at Rapidshare)
66. Silverlight 1.0 by Devin Rader (Free Download at Rapidshare)
Caution Note: I have not stored these books on Rapidshare. I got to know about the links through Google search. It may not be legal to download these ebooks.
You can alternatively search for and buy these Silverlight books at Amazon
Silverlight Web sites, Samples Apps , Codes & Demos
68. Silverlight 1.0 Sample Applications gallery
69. Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Applications gallery
70. The MIX08 fame Hard Rock Memorabilia
71. A Rich AOL email client built with Silverlight 2 Beta 1
72. Piramyd Fashion Show – an application showing designers’ looks for Fall and catwalk video shows
73. TextGlow – A web based Word 2007 document reader built with Silverlight 2
74. Turning The Pages 2.0 – this app lets users explore precious books, their details and listen to the commentary related to books
75. Packman made with XNA and Silverlight
76. Zombomatic, a game built with Silverlight
77. Retail Financial Services Demo – Zip file
78. Pulse – a mashup of Twitter, del.icio.us, Technorati and flickr built with Silverlight
79. Taiwan Mueseum Project which uses Deep Zoom to show one of the Chinese paintings.
80. Silverlight Web Services code samples
81. Virtual Earth Viewer using Silverlight 1.1
82. Building Live Search using Silverlight and Live Search API. Download link
83. Tag cloud app using Silverlight
84. Attractive Banners for creating banners with Silverlight
85. Kit3D – Engine for creating 3D graphics content for Silverlight applications.
86. JW WMV Player for displaying Silverlight video content
87. WeatherBug – an application for Silverlight Mobile; also available online
88. Controls Demo
89. Microsoft Videos which I covered here.
Silverlight and Related Blogs, Forums & Communities
90. Silverlight Designers Forum
91. Silverlight Developers and Programmers Forum
92. Silverlight Group at Google Groups
93. Silverlight Group at Yahoo Groups
94. Silverlight Community on Orkut
95. Silverlight forum for General Discussions
96. Silverlight Commnity Blogs
97. ScottGu’s Blog
100. Chad Campbell’s Blog
101. devlicio.us
I hope you will find these resources helpful and will develop great applications using Silverlight which is in the race for leading the Rich Internet Application Platforms pack. If you liked this post, share it with anyone whom you feel will find it useful.
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