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I just started a new job where I need to do a new development in Silverlight technology. The existing application is an ASP.NET and GIS application.

What version of Silverlight is recommended to use?

I don't have any experience using Silverlight, please suggest me a good place to start -- Tutorials / Blogs/ resources...

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If you are using ArcGIS, then you should use Silverlight 4. The current version of the Esri Silverlight SDK is version 2.4. It is built on top of Silverlight 4. If you are using ArcGIS 10.1, then you can use version 3.0. The current version (beta) of 3.0 is also built on Silverlight 4, but they were talking about building it on Silverlight 5.

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UPDATE: Esri will build 3.0 on top of Silverlight 5 AND 4! –  Shawn Kendrot Jun 17 '12 at 1:46
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Silverlight 5 would be the best bet. You can get lots of tutorials over at http://silverlight.net.

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This,this and this are very good and knowledegeable for starters.

This shows many samples of the silverlight controls with source codes. This shows different practical uses of silverlight with source codes!

If you come across any other queries while development, you can post a question and get suggestions here, on StackOverflow very easily.! :)

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