Silverlight girl released the code for the Baby-2-Woman Silverlight Loader demo project. In another publication she discusses her loader animation created in Expression Blend 2.
In the series of posts of Mehdi Andaloussi you can learn how to Customize Silverlight Toolkit Themes and produce many great looking variations. In the first one, he concentrates on the Shiny Blue theme. The second is dedicated to customizing the Rainier theme and the last one is for exploring the ExpressionDark Theme.
David Anson has a fix for simple HTML display in Silverlight. Check the updated HtmlTextBlock demonstration page and the source code. You can try things out in your browser and/or download the code to see how it works!
Justin Angel shows how to use HeaderedContentControl and HeaderedItemsControl from the Silverlight Toolkit to create a more streamlined UI.
Jafar Husain has a good tutorial on Auto-sizing Canvas for Silverlight and WPF.
If you are designing or developing applications for WPF, Silverlight or another Continuum technology you should know that the Continuum on Channel 9 is now open for business. Its a central hub for the different online projects coming from Adam Kinney and his team.
Jeff Prosise made a mistake with his Silverlight Enigma Simulator and had to update it in order to replicate perfectly the operation of a real Enigma.
Karl Erickson from the Silverlight SDK Team gives a little information about the limitations of Windowless mode for Silverlight.
5 videos from PDC were posted in the Continuum on Chanel 9 showing off new, unique and useful tools. These are : Exploring Time and Space with Infragistics, Smooth Scrolling Datagrids with Xceed, Dynamic 3D Charts with Telerik, Shazzam - A Tool for Creating WPF Pixel Shader Effects and Smart Search and Replace with Aggiorno.
Shown Wildermuth updated his Silverlight 2/Astoria MSDN Article so you are no longer required to use EdmGem to build your proxy.
Manish Dalal has a very useful article about Cross Browser Copy and Paste in DataGrid with Excel support. This post chronicles his attempt to build Copy/Paste functionality, road blocks and the ultimate solution that provides reusable clipboard functionality in multiple browsers.