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

8. Microsoft ASP.NET Futures

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

16. Deep Zoom Composer

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

98. Laurence Moroney’s Blog

99. Tim Sneath’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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