Good resource for learning Silverlight 2 Development?

Question

Now that Silverlight 2 has been released, I'm looking for good resources to learn Silverlight. I messed around with v1, but I chose at that point to wait until 2 was out before getting heavily involved.

I would prefer a book, but it seems that it will be a few months before major publishers release (Wrox, for example).

Any good resources? Bonus points if you are actually doing development in Silverlight 2 :)

Answer 1

I recently heard Jonas Follesoe at NZ TechEd. He was really good. There is a lot of good information on his blog

Answer 2

Scott Guthrie linked to a bunch of good resources. I've dabbled and will get more serious with these:

http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/10/14/silverlight-2-released.aspx

http://jesseliberty.com/

http://timheuer.com/blog/Default.aspx

Answer 3

http://silverlight.net/Learn/

Also, "How to learn Silverlight": http://tocode.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-learn-silverlight.html

A bit dated and simple though.

Answer 4

Also worth having a listen to "Billy Hollis on WPF and Silverlight 2.0" on DotNetRocks

to hear what is currently being done with the technology.

Answer 5

I'd recommend the Sparkling Client podcast and it even features the infamous Jesse Liberty. In addition I'd recommend the blogs of Brad Abrams, Mike Snow, Pete Brown, Michael Sync and Scott Morrison.

Our team has just completed development on a rather intense Silverlight 2 application and I'm planning on sharing some of our experiences, lessons learnt and guidance on my blog over here.

I hope this was useful.

Answer 6

You may also want to check out the concise list of tools required/available at Silverlight 2 Released: New controls, tools, announcements! on Tim Heuer's blog.

It also includes information about how to do free Silverlight 2.0 development using Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition.

Answer 7

There are some good videos and training courses on Channel9 too.

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/