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Jesse Liberty announced that his Sparkling Client interview on Animations in Silverlight is now posted. Jesse has created a special button with in-state animation that will take you directly to the podcast. And he gives two aspects of the button together with their short analyses.

Terence Tsang has another article about  Flash vs Silverlight and this time it is concentrated on loading external assembly/library dynamically. Loading external libraries is a very effective method to minimize the application file size.
Bryant Likes decided to give an answer to a frequently asked question in the Silverlight forums – “Why the setter in an already created dependency property isn’t getting called during data binding?”. Find a little information on Silverlight Dependency Properties in Bryant`s post.
Jeff Wilcox addresses a petition to help him improve the Silverlight Toolkit CodePlex site.  According to him this will be useful for many people and will help for better interacting with and understanding the capabilities of Silverlight and controls.
Adam Kinney noticed a mixview on Zune.net in Silverlight. You may visit The Crystal Method's page and click "mixview" in the sub navigation to see that wonderful Silverlight creation.
Shawn Wildermuth has a post in which he explains how ADO.NET Data Services work with multiple databases if needed.
Zhiming Xue posted in his blog a link to a Channel9 video for building and deploying WPF applications using the .NET client profile.
One of the greatest features introduced in .NET 3.5 Framework Service Pack 1 is the BindingBase StringFormat property. Now Karl Shifflett has an article in which he is trying to explain how to use WPF Binding StringFormat property with Nullable types. He has included a very simple project that you can download and play with.
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