For those of you who are interested in learning the basics of Silverlight "programming", then you might want to take a look at this short recorded web cast from the Silverlight Development Community Team.
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Here's the description of the web cast:
Step by step on getting started, building your first application, XAML, JavaScript, the interaction among HTML, JS, and XAML, creating a useful application.
~ Robert Shelton