10 Minute Tutorial - JavaFX: Basic 2D Graphics and Animation
Update:
I have updated this tutorial for JavaFX 1.0
JavaFX, due to its declarative syntax, empowers developers with the ability to quickly build engaging user-interfaces that leverage eye-popping effects and animation to deliver a deeper, more visceral experience. But, you’ve got to learn to walk before you run 
so this tutorial will explore JavaFX’s basic animation concepts by creating a simple slide show containing various shapes. For added fun, each slide will have the ability to rotate. While eye-popping it is not, I think this tutorial will give you a good starting point to begin working on more complex animations. Read more
Channel 9 video review: Mike Sampson - Building a Silverlight player for Channel 9
WARNING! You may need to watch this video twice. That awesome Star Destroyer model distracted the hell out of me the first time. 
Looks like it had the same affect on a few other people, too.
Apparently, Adam Kinney didn’t have to walk far for this interview. Currently, his office neighbor, Mike Sampson (a.k.a Sampy), works on the Silverlight-based media player for Microsoft’s Channel 8 and Channel 9 websites. So for about fifteen minutes, Mr. Sampy animatedly discusses his extremely positive experience using the Expression suite and Silverlight to bring this media player to life. Read more
10 Minute Tutorial - Silverlight: Building a Silverlight application with MSBuild (C#)
“If you build it they will come”
Don’t know about that, but if you use MSBuild, it’ll sure make everyone’s life a hell of alot easier.
As of .NET 2.0, Microsoft provides developers with a build engine, called MSBuild, as part of the runtime distribution. In this tutorial, I will walk through hand-coding a MSBuild build file for the sample code of my application framework Silverlight tutorial. Read more
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