Thanks Viv,

I will stick to asp.net mvc for the time being, at least until I get the basic functionality in place and then I'll pimp it up.

I stay away from betas because I have a tendency to run into crazy situations (sometimes I feel as if Murphy's law is only about me) and would rather deal with just one set of variables.

Alex

>My 10c :
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>Firstly the obvious one - no reason whatsover, AFAIK, to not use VS2008 over VS2005.
>Maybe even go with 2010 - VS releases have usually proved to be (fingers-crossed) remarkably stable - and by the time your app is ready for prime time the release version should be also....
>Secondly, again AFAIK, Silverlight has cross-browser support (IE, FireFox, Mac, etc) and the download is no more onerous than, say, Flash....
>Thirdly, you don't neccessarily need to use Silverlight across the board - you could start with a standard ASP.NET app and use Silverlight where it made the most sense with a fall-back if you encounter problems.
>All that said it would probably help to have a bit more information about the app you intend to develop - data storage requirements, etc....
>
>Regards,
>Viv