Hi Gary,

For SilverLight, its main target is graphic based or animiated web UI
design(compete with Flash). Therefore, it has remove many programming
features(that is  not very practical) from WPF.  If you want to build data
driven and AJAX based web application, I think ASP.NET + AJAX is still your
first choice. And SilverLight can work with ASP.NET together to replace the
role of Flash for animation or graphic UI elements.  

And for VS 2008, it has contained almost all kinds of projects you will
need when developing an ASP.NET ajax based application(or webservice ,
WCF....).  For SilverLight, you may also need some other graphic design
tools(such as the Expression Studio):

#Expression Studio RTM & Silverlight news!
http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2007/04/30/expression-studio-rtm-si
lverlight-news.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/design-content.aspx#4_2

Visual Studio is only a developing tools and SilverLight has much things to
do with UI & graphic design.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

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