Only few hours left to the Olympics start in Beijing and, as you probably know, at NBCOlympics.com the video player used is based on Silverlight. Shawn Wildermuth shares some thoughts about that in his blog Silverlight 2 and the Olympics - the risks and the rewards. Also, as Frank La Vigne noticed, all the RIA is Flash and only the video player is Silverlight - interesting approach, right?!
Jesse Liberty shows us A third way to handle Templated Buttons & Images as an addition to Web Cast and Digging Deeper post from yesterday.
Azret Botash from DevExpress posted the third part of his Custom Silverlight Controls: Creating a reusable MessageBox dialog series. If you missed the first parts check them here: Part I and Part II.
Mike Snows announced his 3D Simulated Terrain Tutorials for Silverlight Games. As he say, the next set of blogs will be about creating realistic terrain for games that have a birds eye perspective on the world.
Silverlight Offline Database Storage by Sriram Balaji demonstrates how to build a simple local database in Silverlight using Isolated Storage and LINQ. You can download the sample from here.