MS took the .net framework and stripped it waaayyyyyy down to a version that doesn't contain classes they didn't think were necessary for a tool such as Silverlight. So you're downloading a small percentage of the entire framework.

>>Wht do you think Silverlight is too heavy? It's a TINY download.
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>I said it _looks_ too heavy. I was factoring in .NET integration I suppose. My mistake if it isn't, and I'll take a longer look.
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