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In this post, Steve Wortham discusses the future of both Silverlight 5 and HTML5.

Source: SilverlightXAP Blog

Ever since PDC last year there's been stirring talk about Silverlight's future. Some people think Silverlight's days are numbered with broad HTML5 support just around the corner. These rumors have been perpetuated even today by those anxious to see HTML5 come to fruition. And some irresponsible journalism may have been at play as well.

The Silverlight team posted their list of Top 10 Silverlight happenings from 2010.

Source: Silverlight Team Blog

For the Silverlight team, 2010 was a year when lots of hard work came to fruition. We launched Silverlight v4, announced 5, went mobile, went social and delivered transformative media experiences around the world.

In this podcast, Erik and Monica Mork interview Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 5 at the Silverlight Firestarter.

Source: Sparkling Client

For this show, we were able to catch up with Scott Guthrie at the Silverlight Firestarter. He was kind enough to give us an interview, and we asked all of our Silverlight 5 questions.

In this episode of Spaghetti Code Podcast, Jeff Brand and Adam Grocholski talk about the Silverlight Firestarter event and about Silverlight 5.

Source: SlickThought.Net

Spaghetti Code hosts Jeff Brand and Adam Grocholski discussing events in the world of .NET development and beyond. This episode recaps the Silverlight Firestarter event and thoughts about Silverlight 5. It also explores new announcments in the Windows Azure world and also some additional tools for Silverlight developers that are now available.

New versions of Silverlight are being released at quite a high rate (approximately 1.5 VIPAs), however I feel that feature completeness isn’t really an obstacle that prevents people from using Silverlight, as a technology, it feels quite mature already. I think the main obstacle that prevents people from choosing Silverlight is the adoption statistics, i.e. the proportion of people who have the Silverlight plugin installed. With the announced release of Silverlight 5, I thought I would look at the current Silverlight adoption and make some predictions for the future.

In this post, Michael Crump discusses what you need to know before Silverlight 5 beta ships.

Source: Michael Crump's Blog

First, let me address people saying that it is dead after PDC 2010. I believe that it’s best to see what the market is doing, not the vendor. Below is a list of companies that are developing Silverlight 4 applications shown during the Silverlight Firestarter. Some of the companies have shipped and some haven’t. It’s just great to see the actual company names that are working on Silverlight instead of “people are developing for Silverlight”.

                                            

Michael Crump explains how you can pimp your Silverlight Firestarter.

Source: Michael Crump's Blog

1) Pimp the videos [...]

2) Pimp the Training Material [...]

3) Pimp my Silverlight 5 Knowledge [...]

In his latest Yet Another Podcast, Jesse Liberty interviews Scott Guthrie about the Firestarter event, Silverlight 5 and WP7.

Source: Jesse Liberty's Blog

Live From Silverlight-Firestarter 2010. One on one with Scott Guthrie, discussing Silverlight, Windows Phone and more.

John Papa has posted links to all 8 session videos from the Silverlight Firestarter event.

Source: John Papa's Blog

This includes the keynote and the 7 sessions that are targeted at helping you build business applications with Silverlight. I included links to: 

    • Each video, with multiple online and offline downloadable video file formats 
    • Each speaker’s twitter ID (for those on Twitter) if you want to follow them