Getting Started...
There are a lot of things to download and install in order to get started writing Silverlight and WPF applications..
Download Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 90-day trial version here.
Download Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 Tools here.
Download Microsoft® Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Runtime here.
Download Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Software Development Kit Beta 1 here
Download Microsoft® ASP.NET Futures here
Download Microsoft® Expression Design here
Download Microsoft® Expression Blend 2.5 March 2008 Preview here
Download Deep Zoom Composer here
Documentation / Labs
Download Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Software Development Kit Beta 1 Documentation here
Download the WPF labs from here
Download the Silverlight labs from here
Silverlight Hosting (discountasp.net)
