This help file focuses on ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight. For general help on getting started with Silverlight, we recommend the following resources:

http://www.silverlight.net

The official Silverlight site, with many links to downloads, samples, tutorials, and more.

http://silverlight.net/learn/tutorials.aspx

Silverlight tutorials by Jesse Liberty. Topics covered include:

• Tutorial 1: Silverlight User Interface Controls
• Tutorial 2: Data Binding
• Tutorial 3: Displaying SQL Database Data in a DataGrid using LINQ and WCF
• Tutorial 4: User Controls
• Tutorial 5: Styles, Templates and Visual State Manager
• Tutorial 6: Expression Blend for Developers
• Tutorial 7: DataBinding & DataTemplates Using Expression Blend
• Tutorial 8: Multi-page Applications
• Tutorial 9: ADO.NET DataEntities and WCF Feeding a Silverlight DataGrid
• Tutorial 10: Hyper-Video

http://timheuer.com/blog/articles/getting-started-with-silverlight-development.aspx

Silverlight tutorials by Tim Heuer. Topics covered include:

• Part 1: Really getting started – the tools you need and getting your first Hello World
• Part 2: Defining UI Layout – understanding layout and using Blend to help
• Part 3: Accessing data – how to get data from where
• Part 4: Binding the data – once you get the data, how can you use it?
• Part 5: Integrating additional controls – using controls that aren’t a part of the core
• Part 6: Polishing the UI with styles and templates
• Part 7: Taking the application out-of-browser

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/silverlight-posts.aspx

Scott Guthrie's Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page. A useful resource, this page links to several tutorials and samples.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx

An excellent eight-part tutorial by Scott Guthrie, covering the following topics:

• Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008
• Part 2: Using Layout Management
• Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid
• Part 4: Using Style Elements to Better Encapsulate Look and Feel
• Part 5: Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data
• Part 6: Using User Controls to Implement Master/Details Scenarios
• Part 7: Using Templates to Customize Control Look and Feel
• Part 8: Creating a Digg Desktop Version of our Application using WPF

http://blogs.msdn.com/corrinab/archive/2008/03/11/silverlight-2-control-skins.aspx

A practical discussion of skinning Silverlight controls and applications by Corrina Barber.