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copied!<p>If you have a good amount of Java experience, C# is a breeze. It's the same idea with different capabilities and implementation. So, your collections classes have different names, generics looks slightly different, and your threading stuff is done a little differently. Think of the stuff you do often and the Java objects/frameworks/libraries you use often and just find the .Net equivalents.</p> <p>I don't believe anything like LINQ exists in Java, so that's a really cool aspect of .Net programming to take a look at. <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0672329832" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This book</a> has a great quick introduction to LINQ concepts and the rest can be used as a reference.</p> <p>Silverlight/XAML/WPF is pretty simple, but it comes with a really big framework and a ton of things to learn because it's so flexible. <a href="http://silverlight.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://silverlight.net/</a> and <a href="http://windowsclient.net/learn/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://windowsclient.net/learn/</a> have some great videos for you to pick a feature or two to use as a basis to get up to speed with a number of concepts of silverlight, c#, .net etc. Sounds like you don't have the time to take down several books, so these videos should be pretty cool, and there's tons to choose from.</p> <p>As far as what specifically to learn about Silverlight, I'd say the binding is probably the coolest feature. And, take a look at animations, because that's a really cool aspect that is fairly easy to implement.</p> <p>Here's a <a href="http://www.nbdtech.com/Free/WpfBinding.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PDF WPF binding expression cheat sheet</a> to use as a reference. And, <a href="http://blog.richstern.com/?p=187" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> is a pretty simple example of doing Silverlight animations in C#.</p>

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