title: What is Silverlight, and to what types of developers would it be beneficial to know and learn?
body: <p>Is Silverlight just basically Microsoft's version of Adobe Flash?  If so, I've read over the years that Flash is very SEO unfriendly (SE bots see it as a blank page, I've been told), and some browsers don't like Flash too much.  Are the same things true for Silverlight?</p>
  
  <p>I just have a company website I made in Visual Studio 2010 / vb / asp.net 4.0.</p>
  
  <p>Do you have to be an experienced programmer to work with Silverlight, or is there a nice GUI to help out newbies?  I'm just trying to find out, now that I've downloaded 5.0, if the value of learning it is worth it.  Thanks!</p>