The newest Silverlight Menu and Toolbar Control from DevExpress will be released free of charge, with full source code. It will include full-featured static and context menus, template support, toolbar emulation and advanced animation effects. Download your free copy today!
Chris Koenig published his article “Mesh-enabled Applications – Part 1: Getting Started”. Chris: “I’ll try to be thorough about how I went about this so that once you have all the developer pieces you can follow along through what I’ve done and build your own Mesh-enabled application“. If you are unfamiliar with Windows Live Mesh spend some time reading the following articles: Live Mesh Tech Preview, Live Services - Introducing Live Mesh, Live Mesh Blog.
Mike Taulty has done a bunch of stuff with WPF and wants to share several of his demos and slides in case someone finds them useful. He explains that some of those are deliberately very simple and the coverage is incomplete but it might be a starting point for something that you're doing.
Rob Relyea has described the 8 benefits of XAML for UI and beyond. The first one is that XAML describes data in a concise, but human and machine comprehensible way. Read the next seven now!
Some of the workshops and sessions for the MIX 09 Conference are already announced. On the site of the conference you can also read about the traditional restyle challenge to redesign the MIX home page.
Here's a simple Minesweeper game for Silverlight 2 made by Boyan Nikolov. It’s mainly a programming exercise so don’t expect sounds, explosions or any other multimedia effects. You may also download the source code.
Justin Angel wrote an article for one of the new controls in the Silverlight Toolkit – WrapPanel. In order to see how the WrapPanel behaves in different situations Justin had made lots of code and various examples.