Spotlight on Silverlight Hosting

Many New Controls

Silverlight is packed with 60+ fully skinnable and customizable out-of-the-box controls such as charting and media, new layout containers such as dock and viewbox, and controls such as autocomplete, treeview and datagrid.

Sketchflow

SketchFlow, part of the Expression Studio Ultimate, increases the speed and efficiency with which you can demo a vision for an application. SketchFlow provides an informal and quick way to prototype user interface scenarios allowing you to evolve your concepts from a series of rough ideas into a working prototype.

Perspective 3D Graphics

Silverlight allows developers and designers to apply content to a 3D plane and users can rotate or scale content in space without writing additional code.

PivotViewer

PivotViewer makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data on the web in new ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. By visualizing thousands of related items at once, users can see trends and patterns that may be hidden when looking at one item at a time.

Out of the Browser Experiences

Silverlight offers a new features for building light-weight, sandboxed experiences for apps that run on the desktop. The out-of-the-browser experience is enabled within Silverlight without any additional download or the need to write applications in a different way.

Some Resources

Silverlight.net - Microsoft's official site about everything related to Silverlight