Help me out with a bit of some research here. In your opinionwhat tools (from Microsoft) are the MINIMUM needed to get started with Silverlight? Im not talking about full-blown MVVM, MEF loading, Live Smooth Streaming applicationsIm talking about if you were to tell someone who has a bare hard drive and wanted to start learning Silverlight, what tools would you tell them they simply cannot do Hello World++ without? Please respond to my survey: Thanks! tags: silverlight, tools, riaservices,...

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