As a follow-up to last night's CMAP presentation, here are some of the links I spoke about.

• My Blog and my main web site
• Microsoft's main Silverlight site
• Silverlight Community (blogs, forums, demos, quick starts etc.)
• Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Download Page
• Visual Studio 2008 Add-Ons for Silverlight. This gives you the project templates, xsds etc.
• Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK
• My Balloons Demo - Current Version (as of this blog posting)
• My Balloons Demo - Initial Version with Developer Information
• Microsoft Expression (You want Expression Design, Expression Blend 2, and if you do any video work, Expression Media Encoder)
• The main Presentation Technologies and User Experience Design conference: MIX. I hope to see you at MIX08!

When installing, I generally recommend you install the Silverlight 1.1 alpha first. You'll get that from the download page if you visit my Balloons demo or any other Silerlight 1.1 demo.

Then install Visual Studio Orcase (2008), then the Tools for Orcas. Follow that up with the SDK. The SDK includes source code for sample controls as well as general information about Silverlight.

Finally, assuming you don't want to hand-code all your XAML, install Expression Design and Blend. If you want to do any video work, also install Expression Media Encoder.

Once you get that all set up, go visit the quick starts page at Silverlight.net and have some fun :)