Moonlight 2 preview is almost here

The title says it all... For those of you who don't know Moonlight is the open source implementation of Silverlight. It runs on linux machines and will allow developers to bring silverlight applications to linux not only in browsers but also on the Desktop.

It's this Desktop capability that has me interested. One of the cool things about developing using Silverlight (and WPF it's desktop version ) is the ability to create stylish user interfaces easily and quickly. Before Moonlight these user interfaces were for Windows and Mac OSX only, but not anymore.

I started looking at this stuff a couple of months ago, and while there was some information about Moonlight Desklets, there was very little information on how to get them working. So what we are going to do to start with in this blog is to get moonlight working from scratch, then develop our own application.