I love content produced in Silverlight, in fact, not enough is happening with this technology in my personal opinion inside Microsoft (or at least, inside and coming out), however I have found a few resources worth mentioning.  1st up we have information on Silverlight 1.0 development by Dan Wahlin - My Latest Silverlight Articles - Dan Wahlin's WebLog :

My Latest Silverlight Articles

Over the past few months I've been writing articles for the .NET Insight insight newsletter covering various ASP.NET AJAX concepts.  You can read those article here.  I've wrapped up that series and have started writing about Silverlight 1.0.  Each week a new article will be published and I'll update them here so check back.  The articles are designed to be focused and concise and get straight to the topic without a lot of fluff.  

• Getting Started with Silverlight

• Using Microsoft's Silverlight Control in a Web Site

• Understanding Silverlight's createObject and createObjectEx Methods

• Silverlight XAML Primer 1: Exploring Canvases

• Silverlight XAML Primer 2: Rectangles, Ellipses, Lines and Text

• Silverlight XAML Primer 3: Working with Image Brushes

 

and then we have the news that people just can't wait for the next version (was Silverlight 1.1 alpha)

Users Itching for Silverlight 2.0
By  Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft continues to evolve its Silverlight cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for generating rich Internet applications and Web content, and users are anxiously awaiting the features due in the next release.

 

The Redmond, Wash., software giant released Silverlight 1.0 in September, along with a 1.1 update. Then on Nov. 29, Microsoft announced that it was renaming Silverlight 1.1 to Silverlight 2.0. And in addition to adding support for .NET, Microsoft is taking the next version of Silverlight further by adding a comprehensive control model, powerful skinning/theming, data binding and over 20 controls in the box, Microsoft said.

"Silverlight 2.0 is the version we're excited about," said Scott Stanfield, CEO of Vertigo Software, based in Point Richmond, Calif. "Although we are very active with our customers using Silverlight 1.0 today, you have to program it in JavaScript. Nothing against JavaScript—it's better than Flash's ActionScript; it's just the tools aren't as good as what we're used to with Visual Studio. Silverlight 2.0 gives us three things on our Christmas list: .NET language support, more UI [user interface] controls and hopefully, a larger installed base."

The prospect of Silverlight being an alternative to Adobe Systems' technology is attractive to several users.

Cynergy, an RIA (Rich Internet Application) development firm based in Washington D.C., has a long history in other RIA technologies, most recently with Adobe's Flex. "But we are incredibly excited by Silverlight," said Dave Wolf, vice president of Cynergy. The company announced the formation of a Silverlight practice last May.

"Historically Flex was the technology being used in the Lion's Share of our work, but Silverlight opens up some really interesting angles for us," Wolf said. "First off, there is no question that the Microsoft developer community is huge, passionate and for the most part they 'get' enterprise software development. Really the limiting reagent in growth in the RIA space has been having enough of a pool of RIA developers."

Wolf said he believes Adobe has traditionally had a strong design following, but a much more minimal developer pool.

<much more at Users Itching for Silverlight 2.0>

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David