- Where Does Silverlight Come From?
- Using Third-Party Plug-Ins
- Running on Multiple Platforms
- Making the Web Application Secure
- Introducing Silverlight.net
- What Do You Need to Run Silverlight?
- Updating Your Runtime-Automatically
- Trying Silverlight Demos
- What Do You Need to Develop Silverlight?
- Reading the Documentation
- Looking into Silverlight's Future
- Summary
Introducing Silverlight.net
The community website http://silverlight.net contains a collection of valuable information about Silverlight, including quickstarts, samples, tutorials, and so on. Maybe the most interesting section is the gallery, available at http://silverlight.net/community/communitygallery.aspx.
Here you will find a lot of samples, made by Microsoft and third-party developers. This is a good starting point to get an idea of what Silverlight is capable of. Currently, the gallery is divided into two subsections: Silverlight 1.0 (with JavaScript) and Silverlight 2 (with .NET). However, if you install Silverlight 2 (as we recommend), you can still execute older applications.