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Silverlight 3 has officially been released so I was keen to see how others in the industry feel about it and what they’ve been up to with any preview versions. No better place to be doing that than the 8th meetup of the London silverlight users group, especially if you’re at Microsoft HQ in London

Usually there would be a demonstration of an industry created silverlight app but as the meetup coincided with the official launch of Expressions 3 we were treated to a cut down presentation from Ian Ellison-Taylor. He’d presented the See the light launch that day and it was great to have a personalised presentation we could ask questions through.

I was shocked and very pleased to find out that our development head Andrew Martin was the first partner presenter at the launch! Ian had great things to say about the work Andrew presented of which one example was the SEAT magazine we’d done in Silverlight; very cool as it was my design!  <shameless plug>www.seat.co.uk/exeo/pagelife</shamelessplug>. The whole presentation was videoed and is available to view ; worth a look.

So although I’d been using Blend 3 for some time it was good to see how the whole suite was coming together. I’d not previously given Expression Web the time of day but its multi browser HTML comparison tool looks amazing; nearly inspires me to take a peak.

After the break I got a chance to catch up with Ian in person and talk about my Silverlight design experience. My key point was expounding my gratitude for the addition to Blend 3 of the marquee-select keyframe tool – a long time in coming when you have to select them all by hand