Valentin Stoychev put a great effort on the article about Tweaking the Theme colors for Telerik Silverlight Controls. This will help you to create a new theme with different colors in just a few minutes.
Telerik had published a great demo about the RadGridView for Silverlight, which you can test freely. It includes grouping, sorting, column resize and column reorder and much more. The article connected to the demo also worths reading. There you can find what is improved in the rest of the RadControls.
Shemesh posted his first blog for Silverlight. It’s about GridSplitter with a collapse button and has source and demo.
Andy Beaulieu is working on adding a camera controller to the Physics Helper library for Silverlight, Blend and Farseer. It’s not ready yet but if you are curious what it’s going to be you may check this little sample of the camera in use with a ragdoll.
Here is a little Silverlight Tip on how to handle with the “AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR“.
Steve Smith announced the launching of SilverlightFeeds.com – one aggregate site moderated by community volunteers which pulls in useful Silverlight content from many talented bloggers. There is an opportunity to become a moderator of this new Silverlight site.
On the blog of Silverlight SDK Team there is a post about Using ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth in Deep Zoom. It discusses how to use ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth to control the viewport.
Learn how to build a highlighting AutoCompleteBox (like IE8 and Firefox 3) in only 5 minutes in the awesome article of Jeff Wilcox.
Here is a post in which Peter McGrattan attempts to highlight some of the intricacies involved in connecting a WPF Client to the existing Silverlight 2 Polling Duplex demo previously published on this blog.
Corey Schuman shares a few thoughts about Embedding and Obfuscating fonts into your Silverlight project. He had also posted two links of good articles on how to embed fonts.
Justin Angel published the post “Silverlight Design Time Extensibility”. It’s about using tools and about helping those who use their controls with tools.
On the Expression blog there is a cool 2.5D user control for Silverlight 2 that you can download and play with.
Ruurd Boeke has part two of his article “Transitioning the content in an expander”. There is a source included and a sample.
Mehdi Andaloussi has a great tutorial on Themes and ISM. He talks about how to create new themes that work with Implicit Style Manager.
John Papa uploaded his code demonstrations for the 3 presentations he gave at DevConnections in Las Vegas. You can download all three sets of demos.
On Delay’s Blog you can find Two LayoutTransformControl fixes for Silverlight 2.