I don't think Silverlight will play a roll in Windows 8 development. I expect Windows Phone development will end up merging with Windows as it's core and the Silverlight part will be removed. I expect eventually LightSwitch will generate WPF and HTML5 based forms removing support for Silverlight (which can happen with existing LightSwitch apps with no changes, it's designed that way).

Silverlight is in a state much like Visual FoxPro was after VFP 8.0 shipped - it's there if you want it, it's not strategic, and you won't be told to move away from it to avoid angering too many developers at once. I expect the good parts of Silverlight development will morph into Microsoft's dev platform for web (HTML5/JS/CSS) dev/tools. We will learn the details of the technology roadmap from the Build conference in September, should be interesting.

>Anything people say now is pure speculation as Microsoft has not announced anything regarding developing for Windows 8. That will come out this fall as the Build conference (formerly PDC).
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>But, based on it using a UI similar to WP7, Silverlight is a good guess.
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>>Now that Windows has announced it will be releasing Windows 8, which will run on a Tablet,
>>I want to develop apps now that will port to Windows 8, and run on a Windows tablet.
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>>As Windows 8 is not out yet, I will have to develop for windows 7 now, but the eventual goal is to run apps
>> locally on a Windows tablet (Without Internet connectivity all the time)
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>>Any ideas on which of the following technologies I should use now ?
>>Windows Forms
>>Web Forms
>>Silverlight
>>WPF
>>A.N. Other ?
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>>TIA
>>Gerard