Thought I would give the new VS 2010 RC a try and see what kind of performance increase they made.  After uninstalling the VS 2010 Beta 2 and the Team Sever Beta and the .NET frameworks 4.0 beta, I gave it a shot.  After a reboot during the install, if finally failed with an error I do not remember, but after that I got a second error 7012 (perhaps?) that the install failed to return the system to its prior status, shortly after followed by a complete crash of the installer.  I looked at the log and...

Seems it is now available or at least parts.  Time to play!    http://www.nextbestgeek.com/2009/03/18/silverlight-3-its-here/

Silverlight domain names up for free!  Just go to the site, use the Auth Codes to transfer to your registrar! www.SilverlightCity.com www.SilverlightDevs.com

Looks like there may be some XNA 2D games on they way to your browsers.  Here is a short blip: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/03/xna-2d-games-come-to-the-browser-via-silverlight.ars Here is a link to the SilverSprite library at CodePlex: http://silversprite.codeplex.com Will be interesting to see Silverlight move heavily into this market place.  While many are banking on business apps, the game industry should be pretty huge over the coming years.

Here is a cool little demo: http://johnpapa.net/demos/chordcalc/demo.html   You can play individual notes by clicking on them and here the entire chord.  Sweet little app.  Here is more about it along with the code: http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/using-silverlight-to-build-a-guitar-chord-calculator/