The Microsoft Silverlight QuickStart documentation is designed to help you become rapidly productive in performing common developer tasks. QuickStarts are task-based samples that provide an excellent way to learn the features of Silverlight. Each sample walks you through a feature and demonstrates how you can use that feature in your Silverlight-based applications.

The Silverlight QuickStart documentation consists of three categories of topics:

• Silverlight 1.0 QuickStarts
  Topics that cover development using JavaScript.

• Silverlight QuickStart Using Microsoft Expression Blend
  Topics that cover using Microsoft Expression Blend to create Silverlight applications. A free trial of Blend is available..

• Silverlight 2 Beta QuickStarts
  Topics that cover managed development using a subset of the .NET Framework.

Silverlight Development and ASP.NET

ASP.NET (see the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions home page) includes the following new controls, which let you integrate Silverlight into your Web applications by using the familiar server-control model to deliver Rich Internet Applications (RIA). You can find information and code examples for these controls in the ASP.NET Controls for Silverlight documentation.

• MediaPlayer control. Lets you integrate media sources such as audio (WMA) and video (WMV) into a Web application.

• Silverlight control. Lets you include custom XAML into your Web application, which you can use to provide a richer user experience than is possible with AJAX and DHTML.