Introduction:
In this article, i am going to explain about what are the things needed for creating developing programming
silverlight project.

Main:

What are key skills needed for learning silverlight?

Must Comfortable with visual studio,
Must Comfortable with XML,
Must Comfortable with CLR,
Knows the difference between DLL and HTML,

What is new in silverlight?

We can separate presentation and logic using XAML,
Solid XAML support,

What are the tools needed for installing silverlight?

The basic common tools are,

1.visual studio 2010 or visual studio 2008 sp1 with visual studio tools for silverlight,
2.The Silverlight Runtime,
3.Silverlight Toolkit,
4.Expression Blend 3,

You can download all the above upto date links and installation instructions into

http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

For silverlight toolkit we need to reach,

http://codeplex.com/silverlight

ok,now its a time for creating silverlight project,

Click File — Select New Project,
Select a new silverlight application,and then click OK,

Accept the asp.net web application project and then click OK,

Copy the below in mainpage.xaml,

<UserControl x:Class="FirstSilverlightApp.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="400">   <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White"> <Button Width="200" Height="50" Content="Welcome to Silverlight"></Button> </Grid> </UserControl>

Press F5,

thatsit,

Conclusion:
Hope this helps,
Happy coding.