Astoria with silverlight

This is for me to catch up with later but Emil Stoychev wrote
Simple Line Chart with Silverlight 1.1, part 2: Integration with Astoria

Animate in 1.1

Another explanation of animation in 1.1
from laurent Bugnion
How to stop the storyboard and remove the storyboard from the canvas on the storyboard.completed event. this can be done as an anonymous method at the event creation point.

Line chart example silverlight 1.1

This is almost exactly what I have been trying to do for month, except I got distracted by trying to do EVERYTHING in managed code.
Simple Line Chart with Silverlight 1.1, part 1

VS2008

I can see no reason NOT to go to VS2008

Link: How to put silverlight into OpenSocial

Synergist by Michael S. Scherotter