Microsoft Silverlight "Light Up The Web"

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.

• "WPF/E" is Codename of SilverLight.
• Silverlight is a part of .net Framework 3.0

There is a lot of discussion emerging comparing MS's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash.because silverlight have almost all capability which Flash Provides.
like u can embed movie in silverlight easily & do animation , Effects.. etc.

For more discussion on Silverlight & Flash u can check this (http://geekglue.blogspot.com/2007/04/silverlight-vs-flash.html) blog.

Official Wesite for Silverlight is http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight
&
http://silverlight.net/

and For material visit http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/silverlight/materials.mspx

Demo of Silverlight applications.

Very good collection of silverlight examples for new commers click here

To See all Example First you have to install .net Framework 3.0

1. Great Visual Studio QuickStarts for Silverlight 1.0/1.1 New!
2. Silverlight Ink Experiments New!
3. Convert Text to Path New!
4. HTML DOM Interop with Silverlight New!
5. Drag and Drop in Silverlight 1.0 New!
6. Game of Life in Silverlight and F# New!
7. Virtual Earth and Silverlight New!
8. Smalltalk based on Silverlight/DLR New!
9. Silverlight and Google Gears New!
10. Creating A Data-driven Control New!
11. 3D in Silverlight 1.1 Alpha
12. RadControls for Silverlight by Telerik
13. Silverlight 1.1 2D Physics with Source Code
14. Lutz's Digger, Monotone and Inplay; see also .NET Reflector Plugin for Silverlight
15. DLR Console
16. Silverlight Chess (JavaScript vs. C#)
17. SWF2XAML: A Slightly better Flash to XAML Conversion
18. Scott Guthrie's blog posts tagged with Silverlight
19. Silverlight Toolbar
20. Use File Open Dialog with Silverlight
21. Microsoft PopFly
22. Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Developer Reference Poster
23. How-to videos
24. Silverlight Surface Demo (with simple video support)
25. Silverlight XPS Viewer
26. Miguel de Icaza about Silverlight, DLR and OpenSource
27. Eyeblaster Rich Media Silverlight AD
28. SilverNibbles - Converting a Windows Forms Game to Silverlight
29. Silverlight Controls and LINQ
30. Silverlight Games 101 (Silverlight Rocks!)
31. DLR & IconPython at Codeplex
32. Silverlight Pad
33. Video support with Silverlight Fox Example
34. AOL Social Mail Gadget
35. Silverlight Screencasts (more than 20 videos!!)
36. Silverlight Disco Dance Floor
37. Silverlights Out 2.0 and older version 1.1
38. Silverlight GardientBrush Demo
39. Silverlight and the Compact Framework (Mix 07 demo video)
40. Dr. Popper Silverlight Edition
41. Bryant's Silverlight Examples
42. Asteroids Clone
43. Binary Clock
44. Silverlight Scribbler
45. Silverlight and Security (.NET Security Blog)
46. Keyboard Input
47. Silverlight Glass Button (from WPF Glass demo)
48. Silverlight 1.1 Layout System and Controls Framework
49. Full Screen Mode with Silverlight
50. Early version of Snoop for Silverlight
51. New York Times Reader in Silverlight (video)
52. The basics of a Silverlight Control
53. Convert SWF to WPF and Silverlight
54. Test with Silverlight/CoreCLR (TestDriven.NET)
55. Fantasy Baseball
56. Using Playlists in Silverlight
57. Silverlight Pad to Test XAML Content
58. Animation Using Keyframes and Splines
59. Handling Runtime Error Messages in IE and Mozilla
60. Downloading Fonts Using the Downloader Object
61. Converting a WPF/E Application to a Silverlight Scripting Application
62. VB on Silverlight
63. Great Silverlight Introduction for JavaScript Developers
64. Silverlight C# 3.0 Features