If your Silverlight project compiles correctly and appears to run, but it displays only a blank page in the web browser, the first place to check is the “Startup object” in the Silverlight’s project properties:

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Silverlight is a Web application development framework similar to Adobe Flash.  Microsoft has just released Silverlight 3, a major update that delivers many new features including:

• Hardware graphics acceleration, which lowers CPU usage and enables 1080p HD video over the Web.
• Support for H.264 video, AAC audio and MPEG-4 content.
• Smooth media streaming over HTTP.
• 3D-perspective support that can be used with graphic elements, videos and controls. 
• New bitmap and pixel APIs, and custom effects.
• Out-of-Browser support.  Users can safely install Web applications on their computers, create desktop and Start Menu shortcuts.
• New network detection support to switch between online and offline modes.
• Automatic update mechanism for applications.
• Over 100 UI controls with full styling and template customization support.
• Richer data binding features
• A new DataForm control enables better master/detail scenarios.
• SaveFileDialog support.
• New navigation framework that enables deep-linking and forward/back button integration within the browser. 
• Search engine optimization (SEO) support so that content within a Silverlight application can be indexed by search engines.
• Better text rendering and font support (a common complaint that resulted in the loss of a major customer).
• Better accessibility support.
• Major updates to Expression Blend and Sketchflow.

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