>Question for anyone who wants to educate me. I do subscribe to NetFlix and know that they use SilverLight to provide their movies on demand, and it works great for that.
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>But can someone educate me - what else is it able to do other than media presentations. I assume it must do a lot of other stuff. As many examples of what kind of apps could benefit from this would be appreciated.
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>Thanks for allowing me to post and ask this here, I was kind of lazy and didn't want to research this out on the web as I figured a number of our members here could help with this immediately.
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>Thanks....

Mel,

We are creating entire business applications with Silverlight, with MsSQL backend. The main difference to WPF is, that when you use Silverlight, you do not have all controls available, and you need to use WCF to access the data layer. Check out the Silverlight Toolkit where you find a lot of additional controls that otherwise would not be available in Silverlight, which gives you the power to create any data entry scenario that you can think of.

If you start working with Silverlight now, start with the version 4 beta right away, because there are lots of new features, and it will be released somewhere in march next year.