Getting started
These whitepapers provide a good overview of Silverlight.
Silverlight Enterprise Deployment
This paper provides guidance on how to deploy Silverlight within organizations using common infrastructure deployment services. It also describes the installer switches for 3rd party deployment tools or manual script processes for deployment.
Getting Started with Silverlight
This article is a portal into the larger Silverlight documentation.
Silverlight Architecture Overview
This white paper provides a high-level overview of the Silverlight architecture and how it fits into the Microsoft offering for building next-generation Web applications. Also, this white paper provides an architectural review of the Silverlight technology.
Silverlight Installation Experience Guidance
The Microsoft Silverlight Installation Experience whitepaper and sample code cover the principals that will help developers and designers produce effective installation experiences on web sites.
Silverlight Overview
Provides an overview of Silverlight including a discussion on the differences between Silverlight 1.0 and Silverlight 2.
Security Guidance for Silverlight Applications
Provides security guidance when developing and deploying Microsoft Silverlight 2 applications.
Using Silverlight and RSS with ASP.NET
Learn how to use Microsoft Silverlight and RSS through ASP.NET to create a simple hero bar that is easily customizable and regenerated.
Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight Applications
This document describes some best practices for search engine optimization of Silverlight applications. These practices are designed to help developers make their Silverlight content discoverable on a search engine results page and to provide an acceptable experience for users who do not have Silverlight enabled.
