Over the holidays, I was finally able to catch up on some reading and take some time to play with Silverlight 1.0.  The two books that I spent the most time with are ASP.NET Ajax in Action and Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed.  Both of these, I HIGHLY recommend!  > My first project is a Silverlight 1.0 application that I ...

This page has a list of changes, as well as, a link to get the bits: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=blend2preview