Jeff Prosise introduced the Silverlight Enigma Simulator. The Enigma machine is one of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines used to generate ciphers for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. You can try out the Enigma or download the source code.
The source code to the Silverlight Unit Test Framework is now available with the same open source license. According to Jeff Wilcox: “Having source access will give you the opportunity to innovate, meld the framework to meet your needs, and understand the internals”.
If you don’t know how to take advantage of the new Expression Encoder SP1 templates as you just drop them in your existing application, check the article of Tim Heuer - “Using Encoder Templates in your Silverlight Application”.
Mike Snow summarizes what he has learned about debugging, media pipeline, text rendering and Silverlight control of Seema’s PDC talk on Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application in Microsoft Silverlight .
Offline Silverlight Documentation now has Index! Learn how to try it out at Silverlight SDK blog.
Jesse Liberty reworked his examples for Controls Toolkit by adding an AutoCompleteBox to the page and including (per one of the examples provided) a slider to set the minimum number of characters you must put in before the box begins to show you matches.
Jeff Paries presents his Silverlight Gauge Graphic. You can see how the project looks like or download it.
There is a proposal for all Silverlight/WPF Developers & Designers to shake things up in the Silverlight/WPF ecosystem. Do it by answering 11 questions. No contact details will be asked of you, so feel free to be brutally honest.