There is a lot of chatter on the Silverlight Forums (http://silverlight.net/forums) about the lack of synchronous behavior with some of the .NET BCL that is included. It has made a number of people angry and unhappy.  I wanted to venture an opinion about this.

Url: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands

Url: http://www.silverlightdata.com

Url: http://www.mlb.com

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Url: http://www.silverlight-tour.com

I've been noticing that VS 2008 was crashing a lot for me since installing the Silverlight 2 VS 2008 Tools.  It seems that Cider is freaking out but Jon Galloway came to my rescue.  If you're experiencing the crashes, go to:

Url: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/0...

The Silverlight SDK contains a couple of interesting gems that aren't appearent in the docs.  I'll let everyone espouse the virtues of the runtime for the time being, I'd like to introduce you to a couple of tools in the SDK:

Url: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/#betajump

Url: http://microsoft.com/ie/ie8

Url: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/05/adobes-fla...

Url: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/#betajump

Url: http://www.silverlightdata.com

Url: http://www.silverlight-tour.com

Url: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1236

Url: http://www.visitmix.com/2008

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I've been contacted by a couple of potential customers about how the AIR story compete with Silverlight.  This has also come up at several talk i've done recently.  I am not an Adobe or Flash guy so I may be the wrong one to broach the subject, but it feels like they are not necessary competing.  In a large way it feels like Microsoft is trying to get into the web space and compete for RIA, whereas AIR seems to be attempting to get onto the desktop.

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I had a great time today (except for the drive) at the Alabama Code Camp. I want to thank everyone in Huntsville for a great welcome and thank Doug Turnure for help facilliting it all.  (And thank Doug for following me on twitter;)  Here are links to the presentations.