Microsoft released several different components of Silverlight 3. Here's a guide for the downloader It’s easy to become confused when looking at the many possible downloads and blog posts associated with Friday’s release of Silverlight 3. Here’s a quick guide. I have assumed that you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed, and uninstalled any betas or prereleases of Expression 3.[ Also on InfoWorld: “Update: Microsoft Silverlight 3 unveiled” | Keep up with app dev issues and trends with InfoWorld’s Fatal Exception and Strategic Developer. ]Go to Microsoft’s site to download the VS 2008 Tools for Silverlight; this will also install the SL3 developer runtime and SDKDownload the Silverlight Toolkit — Adds more controlsYou can download Expression Blend 3 and the SketchFlow RC. Make sure that you don’t accidentally download an old Expression Blend 3 preview (as I did on my first try); it won’t work right with the released Silverlight 3 runtime classes. It’s good for 60 days; in 30 days, the final version should be available, and it will be included in most MSDN subscriptionsScott Guthrie’s blog post about the Silverlight 3 release gives a good overview of the improvements over Silverlight 2Somasegar’s blog post about the Silverlight 3 release has more examples than Scott’sChristian Schormann’s blog post is about Expression Blend 3 and especially the new SketchFlow featureBrad Abrams’ three-part Silverlight 3 business apps exampleSilverlight.net — Tutorials, downloads and forums where you can get helpMicrosoft Expression community homeThe official site of Silverlight — Includes some V3 feature demos Technology Industry