My Development Environment for Silverlight
My current development environment for Silverlight 1.1 is as follows:
- Microsoft Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Beta 2
- Microsoft Silverlight Tools Alpha for Visual Studio codename "Orcas" Beta 2
- Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh for Windows
- Expression Blend 2 August Preview
There are links to each of these downloads on this page: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
As you can tell, this stuff is all cutting edge and is all in prerelease, but it's the best that's out there right now for doing Silverlight 1.1 development. The good news is that you can get started with all of these technologies now for free and get a jump on everyone else doing Silverlight development.