Dan Wahlin explains how to use styles to define Silverlight 2 Control Templates. In this way you can re-use a template across multiple controls. Read the whole article here.
The new Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1 just came out. Get it from the Microsoft Download Center. Tim Heuer shares his opinion about it in his blog.
For those of you who didn’t attend the PDC, Microsoft published all the video recordings online at the Channel9 website.
Gerard Leblanc released the third part of his article about Menus - Animated multi-level drop-down menu. For those of you who are not familiar with it, you can review Part I and Part II.
Jesse Liberty created his own data to explore the AutoComplete control. You can see how he chose to do it here. He also updated his post about The Implicit Style Manager.
Jeff Wilcox shows how to teach Windows to treat Xap files as first class compressed folders with a simple registry entry. Enjoy this fix here. He also recommends you to have your server configured with the new Silverlight MIME type, if you host XAP files on a CDN or other host (such as Amazon S3). Do it now!
Bill Reiss updated his Stack Attack game. He also created a Mesh-enabled Silverlight application that run “outside the browser” and can run in an offline mode. You can see his game Dr. Popper running on the desktop in this screenshot.
Silverlight 2.0 Dependency Properties And Routed Events by Joseph Ghassan – “Dependency Properties and Routed Events are 2 key concepts that you should know before delving into writing Silverlight application. Silverlight borrows the property model and the event model from its big brother WPF in a simplified way…” Plus much more!
Pete Brown continues his article about the Charts in the Silverlight Toolkit and this time he shows how to make them look more interesting. Read more on Pete’s blog post.
The Silverlight SDK team posted a whitepaper on Search Engine Optimization for Silverlight Applications.
Check the article of Martin Grayson – “Adventures of a `Devigner`“. There you can read about the first release of Blacklight.
You can try out the DeepZoom application at Shape – The Web Conference on 26th of November.