What is Microsoft Silverlight? Silverlight Resources, Articles and Tutorials

Recently, I have been regularly hearing about Microsoft Silverlight which is going to replace Adobe Flash and Action script. Actually, I love it because i can develop rich interactive applications using my current .NET knowledge without having to learn new technology or scripting language like Actionscript. XAML is also based on XML which i already know. It also support languages lik Ruby and Python. Sounds coool. Here is the definition of Silverlight on Wikipedia.
Silverlight is a proprietary runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications, providing a subset of the animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation. Version 1.1 also includes a complete version of the .NET Common Language Runtime, so that Silverlight applications can be written in any .NET language. Silverlight aims to compete with Adobe Flash and the presentation components of Ajax. It also competes with Sun Microsystems' JavaFX, which was launched a few days after Silverlight

I have collected number of resources on Silverlight which are listed below. I hope it will save your time and money. List will be updated continuesly when i find new resources.

Silverlight Introductions and Overviews

• Getting Started with Silverlight
• Get Started Building A Deeper Experience Across The Web - MSDN Magazine
• Silverlight Introduction and Overview from the author of Silverlight, Scott Guthrie
  
• Silverlight 1.1 Alpha QuickStarts
• Sierpinski Triangle - An Introduction into silverlight by Example
  
• Silverlight: The Web just got richer
• Microsoft: Silverlight More than a Flash
• Silverlight Intro by example
  

Silverlight Sites

• Microsoft MIX07
• Microsoft Silverlight Streaming - Admin Home

Silverlight Blogs

• Silverlight Tutorials
  
• Silverlight Resources and Links
  
• .NET 3.0 Cornucopia
• Bryant Likes's Blog
• Dan Wahlin's Weblog
• Devlicio.us - Blogs
• Tim Sneath
• ScottGu's Blog
• Web.Next
• Joe Stegman's Weblog
• Mike Harsh's Blog
• Delay's Blog
• Chris Craft's Blog
• ExplosiveDog.Com
• Silverlight - TestDriven.NET by Jamie Cansdale
• Brad Abrams
• Sean Alexander's Blog
• Somasegar's WebLog
• Laurence Moroney's Blog
  
• Tim Sneath's Blog
• Dave L. Campbell's Blog

Silverlight Articles

• Silverlight Architecture
• Silverlight Articles by ScottGu
  
• http://silverlight.net/Showcase/
• Digital Clock using silverlight and Javascript
• Silverlight articles on ASPAlliance
• Silverlight articles and tutorials on Wynapse
• Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - Putting Mix, Silverlight, the CoreCLR and the DLR into context
• Software Development in the Real World Top 10 Reasons Silverlight Will Change the Web
• Why Silverlight Is Important
• Silverlight and .NET - This is HUGE!

Silverlight Videos

• MIX 2007 Silverlight Sessions and "How Do I?" with Silverlight Videos from official Silverlight Websites
• Just Glue It! Ruby and the DLR in Silverlight

Silverlight Applications

• Silverlight Airlines Demo
• Silverlight Disco
• Yet Another SilverLight XAML Demo
• Hong Button, Matrix Digital Rain, iPhone, Rolling Gear, WPF/E Reflection
• Silverlight Jelly and Source Code
• Silverlight puzzle game
• Silverlight Sample Applications
• Layout System and Controls Framework: Demo and Source code
• From A to Z... 50 Silverlight Applications
  
• Ant attack (with source code)
• TetrisLight
  

Silverlight Downloads

• Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha
• Microsoft Visual Studio codename "Orcas" Beta 1
• Microsoft Silverlight Tools Alpha for Visual Studio codename "Orcas" Beta 1
• Expression Blend 2 May Preview
• Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Software Development Kit (SDK)
• Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (May 2007)

Silverlight Resources

• Mind map of rich set of Silverlight resources, tutorials, artices, links, applications, games and other stuffs
• Silverlight Forum
• Silverlight Gallery

See Also;

1. Most Useful 20+ Visual Studio Add-ins
2. J2EE vs ASP.NET vs PHP
3. ASP.NET AJAX Resources, Samples, Articles, Tutorials and Toolkits
   
4. Frameworks are more important than Programming Languages
5. AJAX Frameworks and Resources
6. SQL Injection Resources
7. Prevent robots from submitting data

Updated 22/07/2007;

• 6 Silverlight Screencasts (MSDN Nuggets)
  
• Silverlight vs. Flash: The Developer Story
• Silverlight Configuration Tool