Silverlight Tour resource links
Each time I teach the Silverlight Tour Workshop I use some links to show interesting stuffs related to each topic I present, so I think it will be interesting to list them here, grouped by interest:
* Demos samples
I always start by showing some live samples to demonstrate the different kind of apps you can build with Silverlight. The point here is everything you can do with Flash, you can do it with Silverlight (animation, games, business app, data access, web service, …)
MS Health Patient Journey Demonstrator: Most impressive demo ever!
http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/
Silverlight Airlines (LOB sample)
http://silverlight.net/samples/sl2/silverlightairlines/run/default.html
Games (with physics engine!)
http://www.spritehand.com/RECENTPROJECTS/tabid/161/Default.aspx
Performance benchmark (Animation)
http://www.bubblemark.com/
Yosemite DeepZoom
http://www.xrez.com/yose_proj/Yose_result.html
* Free Silverlight controls
The point here is the Silverlight controls ecosystem is already large like ASP.NET. When you need a control, start by looking at existing available controls (there are several free projects).
Silverlight Extensions
http://www.codeplex.com/SLExtensions
Silverlight Contrib
http://silverlightcontrib.org/
BlackLight
http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/
You can find a much more detailed list here:
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/01/28/comprehensive-list-of-silverlight-controls.aspx
Of course you should already know:
Silverlight Toolkit:
http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight
Silverlight 2 controls demo page
http://silverlight.net/samples/sl2/silverlightcontrols/run/default.html
(also interesting to learn which assembly are needed for extended controls)
* Design with XAML
Silverlight resources for designers post
http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2008/11/25/silverlight-resources-for-designers.aspx
* Data Access
Silverlight Data-Driven Examples (Data Access with NHibernate or Entity Framework)
http://www.silverlightdata.com/SilverlightDataApp/
Data Binding (french)
http://broux.developpez.com/articles/csharp/databinding-silverlight/
* Real world apps
See the Silverlight Showcase
http://silverlight.net/Showcase/