Looks like Silverlight 3 is rolled-out: Runtime, SDK and documentation are already available for download. See the Client / Server libs?

Runtime:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=143433

Silverlight 3 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=11dc7151-dbd6-4e39-878f-5081863cbb5d

SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d09b6ecf-9a45-4d99-b752-2a330a937bc4!

Documentation:
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc838158(vs.96).aspx.

Blend 3 Preview:
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/blendpreview

 Best regards,
 - tobias

This could be just a little reminder on Silverlight 3 (you know MIX 09 yadda, yadda, yadda) but perhaps it can be a little bit more for you.

Check out any download in Microsofts Download Center for Silverlight 2 and you will see something like the following on the "Thank You" page which appears after the download itself.

Clicking on this link brings you to a "coming soon" page. Might this be true for everybody? Perhaps you can just adjust you user-agent string to get access? I don't know. If you have access to MS' intranet, it looks like you can download SL3 Tools from here (found via this one).

Sorry, just a litte teaser And look out for LOB functionality in SL3.

Best regards,
 - tobias

After reading a blog post today on the LOB in WPF topic and remembering the countless ones I read before I thought it might be the right time to present the world what I would like to call "the first framework for db-centric line-of-business applications built for WPF": Trivadis Application Builder (TAB). The name already implies that there is more than just a framework.

While there are now powertoys out to create business WPF forms, we are already a step ahead of those. The business forms (master/detail, detail, etc.) in a TAB applications are either created dynamically at runtime without user interaction or XAML code is generated by a wizard at design time (which creates exactly the same XAML as the runtime generator does).

At lot of business application functionality like Lookups, Catalogs, Filters, Sorting, Translation Services, Multi-Layer validation, etc. is available in our framework which implements all of this in a M-V-VM pattern way and tries to force the developer to think in M-V-VM ways.

Take this post as a teaser and come back for the next post in this new TAB series.

BTW: Version 1.0 is out in the wild and is already used in real-life customer projects. For more information concering projects with TAB please go to http://www.trivadis.com