WPF Toolkit and SL compatiblity
"At PDC the WPF Tookit was made available which provides several new controls to WPF to help bring even more compatibility to the WPF and Silverlight story. The new controls were the DatePicker, Calendar, DataGrid and the VisualStateManager concept to WPF. Ribbon controls were also provided to the WPF Toolkit, but are not covered here." [More]
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2008/11/10/sharing-code-and-xaml-between-silverlight-and-wpf.aspxWindows Embedded next release based on Win 7
"Microsoft has confirmed that the next version of Windows Embedded will be built on Windows 7. Codenamed Quebec, the platform will include Silverlight 2 and Windows Presentation Foundation, and will be compatible with Visual Studio 2010 to support connected devices requiring rich applications and access to web-based services." [More]
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2230144/windows-gets-embeddedSL, It just keeps getting better
"Dave Britton of Vertigo was at Silicon Valley Codecamp 2008 and gave a presentation on Silverlight 2.0. Dave highlighted that there is a tight integration between ASP.NET and Silverlight. Silverlight also has rich tooling support with Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend." [More]
http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2008/11/09/silverlight-20-it-just-keeps-getting-better/