As I sit waiting for the Visual Studio Service Pack 1 ISO to finish downloading, I spent some time looking and reading about Silverlight and about C#. I have found one or two good websites, ones that I go to regularly to check for updated articles and source code. So three of my favourite Silverlight websites at the moment:

• Martin Grayson’s Adventures of a ‘Devigner’: The title, ‘devigner’, of the blog suggests that Martin Grayson sees himself as a real designer/developer. Maybe he has that one thing that all developers sometimes miss, the knack to design and develop in one breath. I guess neat and tidy and functional is not always good enough. Then again creativity, in my opinion, can be subjective.
• Smart Draw:I have linked to them before or written about them before and they keep the website updated with new source code all the time. I like the fact that they actually illustrate that it is possible to do something both in Flash and Silverlight.
• Silverlight Made Simple by – Corey Schuman:

Is another favourite website of mine because I got source code for a simple media player from it.

Silverlight 2 was officially released recently, which meant an entire update of tools and plugins, hence the reason for downloading the Visual Studio Service Pack 1. With the new release of Silverlight you need to download a few things:

• Silverlight Developer Tools
• The updated Silverlight Plugin
• Visual Studio Service Pack 1

I downloaded the ISO for the service pack because I wanted to distribute it on more than one user machine.