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A Personal Guide to Getting Started with Silverlight by Jesse Liberty – If you are newbie in Silverlight, this post will help you find the right places in Silverlight.net.

Editing the ControlTemplate of Slider in Expression Blend by Kiril Stanoev – This step by step tutorial will show you how to edit the control template of one of the Telerik’s controls – the slider.
Deep Zoom, MultiScaleTileSource and the Mandelbrot Set by Mike Ormond – Overview of the MultiScaleImage control in Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Good post that can teach you a lot of things some of them even not related to the Deep Zoom itself. Source code is available in the article.
CoolMenu: A Silverlight Menu Control by Page Brooks – Nice multifunctional reusable control written in Silverlight. As Page Brooks says “…Feel free to use this in your applications, I've provided the source code and a live demo below. Enjoy!”
Two new posts by Tim Heuer, the first is Silverlight and MS CRM Services some words about Microsoft CRM and Silverlight. The second one is Troubleshooting data/service access in Silverlight – about the session Tim is going to make.
Silverlight 2 Farseer Physics Geom Visual Helper Method by Calbert – Nice utility if you want to see where your geoms are being rendered to the screen to make sure you have everything in the right place.
Sams Teach Yourself Silverlight in 24 Hours, Table of Contents by Laurent Bugnion – in this post you can find the table of contents of the first 13 chapters of the 24 chapters’ book.
Base Classes for User Controls by Shawn Wildermuth – sometimes Silverlight makes some simple things too difficult, but thanks to people like Shawn we can find the correct solution or workaround. Blend Container Editing is a second post by Shawn and is about some useful tricks when using Blend to edit your container controls.
Calling WCF on the server of origin from Silverlight by Bill Reiss – solutions to some common problems/exceptions when using WCF for communication with a server.
Skyfire – the windows mobile browser already supports Silverlight! Here’s the message from the Skyfire blog post.
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