I know I'm a little slow in doing so, but today I finally sat down and went through all the Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1.0 Templates. I was incredibly impressed with some of it and sorely disappointed with other parts. Everyone has said it is really easy to use this technology and I agree. I have a little PhotoShop experience from my web design days. I have dabbled in some animated gifs, Flash Creations, PDF Creations, Corel Draw, Paint .Net, and who knows what else. I opened up the VS 2008 Template and I was banging away in XAML. It's ten times easier than the good old days with HTML 3.0 writing all my code in notepad and hitting F5 on IE. I like it, however there was one pet peeve I had with it. You can't double click on an item in the display and have the Code Behind Open up with a click event or another event. It took me about 30 minutes to realize I just couldn't do it, then I moved on and realized it's not so bad typing Cick and the equals and quotes displaying and a popup asking me if I would like to create a new event handler. I also wish that pasting code into the XAML would ask me if I wanted to create the event handler in the Code Behind. It would save me some time deleting lines of text and re-typing Click....I guess you win some and you lose some. The next thing I am going to play with is some Windows Applications in WPF. I did a little preliminary what are the objects playing around with them type deal. I like the scroll bar and document viewer. I can definitely see some uses for them. If you haven't already played with WPF 3.5 and Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1.0 I would recommend going out there and attempting to play around with some of the tutorials. At the bare minimum you don't need to be a hardcore programmer. I know I'm a little above the normal administrator/designer. You don't have to be nuts like me where you touch everything that you see, including a skateboard, nunchuks, flash, Java, PHP, calculator programming...You can just be a regular Administrator or designer who knows a bit of XML, ASP, or HTML. I am pretty sure you could pick these skills up. Here is the Silverlight Link: Silverlight.Net. Happy playing guys!