I saw the news about Silverlight and the things that struck me was that it was a) cross platform and b) provided a fantastic experience.  You can also use the Expression tools to build this stuff. So much was I impressed by the stuff that I have hosted it on my server for you to see what is there.  To find out more go to Microsoft Silverlight

It does pretty graphics, movies, effects like turning pages and more.  If you install the runtime (you must have .Net 3.0 installed - i.e. native on Vista and installable for Windows XP) then pop along to http://uksbsguy.com/febctpsamples to see the demos.  To get started you need to do some downloading (click below for Windows or http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/asp/downloads.aspx for Windows and MAC):

System Requirements and Installation Instructions

There are a number of blogs on this product and they can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/asp/blogs.aspx.  It is also worth noting that the Silverlight web site (http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight) will be enabled with this technology today :-)

Ok, so to the tech demos - obviously download the Sample Code for youself from the downloads pages about, however, the samples on the site look like this:

Film Strip

Provides a simple tool to show a group of bitmaps in something like an old fashioned movie film reel (hint, click the arrows at the bottom of the screen)

Grand Piano

Play 1 octive on the piano using the keys on your keyboard (z->m for the white keys for C through to B and then SDGHJ form the flats or black notes)

PageTurn

This is an electronic magazine with realistic page turning experience - inside a browser!!  Grab the corner of the page on the bottom left to turn the pages and click the little two page icon in the far bottom corner of the screen to show the thumbnails.

Sleek Video Player

This video player itself did not inspire me much, however the video did make me laugh a lot!!  I did notice that when I hover over the bottom of the video I get the option to move the slider along, which is neat!

Sprawling

This is a good fun game - the sort of thing normally done with Flash, but without it :-)

Tile Text

This creates text using scrabble like pieces

Video Library

This is a little gadget to show a list of videos - it resized automatically and is a nice tool to play with.  The default link is to a channel 9 show in London.

WPFE Pad

This is a web based WPF/E or Silverlight editor - for a web based tool it is pretty amazing.

This all looks amazing to me - I see a bright silver future on the web!!

ttfn

David