Lately there has been a lot of buzz speculating on the future of the web including HTML 5, Silverlight, and other web technologies. Brad Becker, Director of Product management at Microsoft, has posted some valuable insight into the value of Silverlight and the role it does and will play in the web [

Today we released a new update to for Silverlight 4 (4.0.50826.0) and a new SDK to go along with it. Tim Heuer posted a summary here [http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2010/09/01/silverlight-service-release-september-2010-gdr1.aspx] and you can check out the full details at KB2164913 [http://support

John Stockton demonstrates on Silverlight TV [http://jpapa.me/sltv43] how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstra

Tsitsi Gora, UX Designer at Microsoft, appears on Silverlight TV to announce the new Silverlight themes [http://jpapa.me/sltv42] that her team has been working on. Tsitsi demonstrates the new themes available for download and explains the scenarios they had in mind when they created the themes. The

On this episode of Silverlight TV [http://jpapa.me/sltv41], Dinesh Kulkarni shares his top tips for creating streamlined and performant WCF RIA Services applications. He walks through some key decision points while creating domain services (server side) for a Silverlight and RIA Services application