Dan Wahlin has an example on how to use the Visual State Manager in Silverlight Templates and by this to add many different effects into your Silverlight 2 applications without writing a lot of code. He gives an example of a standard Silverlight 2 Button control with a custom template applied.
Here is one project created and released by Jeff Wolfer and Matt Watson from VinSolutions. They show how to use Silverlight based Validator toolkit for validating user input. The project also includes input filtering and formatting options. To demonstrate their great work they’ve put a live demo.
The Silverlight SDK Team has a post on why there are unexpected results when pressing the F1 Help if you've installed the Silverlight Toolkit after Visual Studio 2008. See their explanation and correct the mistake now.
Nikhil Kothari has written an article about in-place editing for Silverlight without popping another box and just using styles, templates, and visual state manager.
Ruurd Boeke has a post about efficiently animating items on movement. See how Ruurd visualizes the movement of an object.
Jeff Wolfer noticed while working with Attached Properties and Dependency Properties that the code snippet is wrong. If you’ve experienced the same problem check the solution that Jeff gives. It’s very simple – you just have to download and update your code snippets.
Jesse Liberty has another blog post on dealing with multiple pages. This time it’s very detailed and the code used in it is available.
In the tutorial of Joseph Ghassan - “Silverlight 2 User Controls Communication”, you can find how to create without any effort an effective user controls communication inside Silverlight application.
Peter McGrattan released Silverlight 2 WCF Polling Duplex Support - Part 4: Adding a WPF Client. Read this new article of his great Silverlight and WCF series.
Kathy Kam published an application that combines LiveSearch and Silverlight for a movie showtime search. And all this by using Windows LiveSearch 2.0 API.
Here is a webcast, as part of the MSDN Webcast series, for the integration, usability and compatibility features of Visual WebGui, introduced with the new version 6.2.
Check one simple example on how to pass some predefined parameters to Flash / Silverlight in different pages of a website. This is a great comparison between Flash and Silverlight.
Alexey Zakharov has a little tip for setting a web page title.
Cristian Merighi is moving to a new blog which interface is developed entirely in Microsoft Silverlight 2.0.
In a previous article , Display Images From Database In Silverlight 2, Suprotim Agarwal explored how to pull images from the database using Silverlight. Now he is showing a quicker approach for using the IsolatedStorage to store and retrieve images.
Tamir Khason shows how to create transparent buttons, panels and other control with Compact Framework and putting one into other.