Today I decided to test Silverlight 2.0 to see what's is all about. I only created a small "Hello World" application, but in the next few days I plan to do the following tests:

• How to load text from an xml
• How to load images
• How to load movies and sounds
• How to do animations

My initial thoughts are that Silverlight Xaml are very similar to Flex's mxml, they are both xml, and both define components and layouts. In addition, instead of creating the code in AS3, you can write in C#, VB, RUBY or Python.

In order to create this demo I installed the following:

1. Try Visual Studio 2008 (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx)
2. Silverlight 2 plugin (http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/installationFiles.aspx?v=2.0)
3. Blend 2.5 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=32A3E916-E681-4955-BC9F-CFBA49273C7C&displaylang=en)
4. Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0BAE58E-9C0B-4090-A1DB-F134D9F095FD&displaylang=en)

And here is the small demo I created: http://jtinteractiveonline.com/silverlight_tests/testpage.html

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