Chris Barker outlines how you can use Silverlight to write Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets. To get started on your Windows Vista machine, you will need to have installed Visual Studio 2005 or 2008, the Silverlight runtime, and the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio.

This two-day residential event for senior IT architects, CTOs and senior IT decision makers provides a unique opportunity to hear from leading industry speakers from Microsoft and other organisations, engage in architectural discussion and debate, and network with your peers.

The British Library digitised the pages of 15 of their most valuable works and created "Turning the Pages", a browser-based WPF application that enables you to interact with these books in a virtual environment remotely. You can open a book on your desktop and by clicking on a page, turn it in a 3D environment. You can even zoom or pan around each of the pages.

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications of the web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python and Ruby, and integrated with existing Web applications. Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac 0S or Windows.