Remember this basic tutorials that Macromedia used to put out so new users could get up to speed quickly?  I've been looking for something similar on Silverlight.  I found it.

nibbles tutorials

Simple, short, well written.  It took a matter of minutes to get the basic concepts down and go create something.  I rebuilt my banner in Silverlight just for kicks.

http://offcampus.members.winisp.net/banner/

Spend a few minutes and you immediately start to see why this deserves so much attention.  The project seamlessly moved between tools as opposed to being a foreign multimedia object and trying to code around it.