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Here is a post about Tweaking OnApplyTemplate Event Timing in Silverlight 2. When reading this article you will understand the control’s life cycle which will help you to avoid many unpleasant situations and to save time and concerns.

In a previous article Peter Bromberg presented an example of creating stock charts using the Silverlight Toolkit Charting control. He knew that it will be very useful to make an Autocomplete TextBox to provide the correct symbol for the stock he wanted to chart so now he is ready to show two different ways to do this. He also provides a CSV format text file of over 20,000 current stock symbols.

Terence Tsang continues with comparing Flash and Silverlight. This time he explains the Local Storage and shows that both of the technologies provide a very convenient way to store some temporary data into user computer.

Jonathan van de Veen shares some random hints and tips on Silverlight in his blog. He discusses Silverlight Application Name, IntelliSense with Silverlight assemblies and how to get a template applied on your custom control.

Jesse Liberty is impressed by the SandDock for Silverlight that the people from devElements have developed. Check what he’d commented on this floating windows management toolkit. In another recent post of his, Jesse is trying to classify the language - C# or VB, in which he is writing his blog samples, videos and tutorials. His goal is to provide access to all of this information at a very high level of comfort for both VB and C# programmers. 

Hannes Preishuber has an article about the Rownumber in Silverlight Datagrid or Listbox. His sample uses a converter to show a line number within a datalist. He also writes about B# and Silverlight Isolated Storage. If you wonder what B# is and how you could store data then this post is exactly for you.

Do you want to get rid of Xaml? If the answer is ‘Yes’ then you should read the post of Timmy Kokke in which he explains how to make a game, or just a cool demo in Silverlight without XAML.

Tim Greenfield discusses how to animate collapsing a Grid column or row in Silverlight.  If you try to do this by animating ColumnDefinition.Width or RowDefinition.Height an error will occur. So learn how to prevent it!

Stefan Olson will teach you how to convert your application to Silverlight if you have already built it in WPF. It’s not so easy and not everything could be done, but check what he has figured out!

Here is one very useful post that will help you in understanding IValueConverters vs. TypeConverters and when to use them. The author, Bryant Likes, has also written an article about Deep Zoom Image Generation with DeepZoomTools.DLL. He updated the project so it must be a lot easier to try it now.

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