The Microsoft Silverlight QuickStart documentation is designed to help you become rapidly productive in performing common developer tasks. QuickStarts are task-based samples that provide an excellent way to learn the features of Silverlight. Each sample walks you through a feature and demonstrates how you can use that feature in your Silverlight-based applications.

The Silverlight QuickStart documentation consists of three categories of topics:

• Silverlight 1.0 QuickStarts
  Topics that cover development using JavaScript.

• Silverlight QuickStart Using Microsoft Expression Blend
  Topics that cover using Microsoft Expression Blend to create Silverlight applications. A free trial of Blend is available..

• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 QuickStarts
  Topics that cover managed development using a subset of the .NET Framework.

Silverlight Development and ASP.NET

The Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK includes new ASP.NET server controls that let you integrate Silverlight into Web applications by using the familiar server-control model to deliver Rich Internet Applications (RIA). The SDK includes the following ASP.NET server controls:

• MediaPlayer control. The ASP.NET System.Web.UI.SilverlightControls.MediaPlayer server control lets you integrate media sources such as audio (.wma ) and video (.wmv) files into a Web application, without requiring any knowledge of XAML or JavaScript.
• Silverlight control. The ASP.NET System.Web.UI.SilverlightControls.Silverlight server control lets you provide a Rich Internet Application (RIA) experience with your Web application, beyond what can be done with AJAX and DHTML alone. By using the Silverlight control, you can integrate XAML and any supporting code (a managed-code assembly, a managed dynamic-language script module, or client JavaScript libraries) into your Web site.

You can find information and code examples for these controls in the ASP.NET Controls for Silverlight documentation.