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• What is WPF/E really?
  • WPF/E is a browser plug-in that augments the set of functionality provided by HTML to provide media, animation and vector graphics with the same programming model that the HTML DOM exposes. This CTP of WPF/E is not a UI technology that replaces HTML, it augments the capabilities.
    
  
  
• http://silverlight.net/
• Getting Started with Silverlight

In the Silverlight model, designers can build their desired user experience and express this as XAML. The XAML can then be incorporated directly by a developer into a Web page using the Silverlight runtime. Thus, the two can work more closely than ever before to provide a rich client user experience.

At the heart of Silverlight is the browser-enhancement module that renders XAML and draws the resulting graphics on the browser surface. It is a small download (under 2 MB) that can be installed when the user hits the site containing the Silverlight content. This module exposes the underlying framework of the XAML page to JavaScript developers, so interaction with the content on the page level becomes possible, and thus the developer can, for example, write event handlers, or manipulate the XAML page contents using JavaScript code.

• Silverlight and IronPython
  
  
• An Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight
• Microsoft goes cross-platform with Silverlight (formerly WPF/Everywhere)
• Getting Started with Silverlight Development
• TechEd: Sweet Silverlight Links Demos
• A lap through Silverlight (a deeper look into what is coming in 1.0 and 1.1)
• Programming HTML with C# - crisp introduction

• An IronPython Silverlight Application
  • A basic Silverlight application consists of five files:
    • HTML file - the page that embeds the Silverlight control (or controls)
    • Silverlight.js - loads Silverlight or displays the logo
    • CreateSilverlight.js - provides a function that creates the control
    • XAML file, this defines the root Canvas
    • Plus, either an assembly (dll) or Python file loaded by XAML

• What's New in Silverlight 2?

vs Java Applets, Flash

• text-format, not binary
  • XAML is interpreted by the Silverlight runtime
• XAML is HTML done right for RIA [1]