Tamir Khason together with the guys from Microsoft Egypt and Santeon are developing a Arabic and Hebrew languages bidirectional support for Silverlight 2.0 beta 2. They are already in alpha test stage, so if you are interested go and see the alpha release at CodePlex.
Delay writes about a little trick that can shrink the size of your XAP file. In that way the user should download less data and get the content much quicker.
A new update for Silverlight 2 is now available. It improves the stability, the media streaming, the auto-update component and the support for Firefox 3. More information at Microsoft Support kb955011.
I found this really great article about the Silverlight Initialization via the ASP.NET Silverlight Server Control. It examines the ASP.NET Silverlight server control and the markup it renders. If you are also interested of how the Silverlight plug-in is described and how to manage the Silverlight initialization parameters, this article will definitely satisfy your curiosity.
In his post Tim Heuer shows how to make the Silverlight 2 Video Player a template for Expression Encoder.
Using Isolated Storage – another very useful tip from Mike Snows, this time it’s about the Isolated Storage, that is used by Silverlight to store data on your machine.
Have you ever wondered how to allow the user to save a file generated by your Silverlight application using ASP.NET? The article from Page Brooks can give a complete answer to this question.
Take a look at this article from the DevExpress team about Silverlight Data Grid - Creating an IM/Chat Server and Client using Sockets and I think the title says it all. There is also a downloadable source code.
Want to master Silverlight? Bart Czernicki gives some guidelines in the first part of his article Silverlight 2.0 - Concepts to become a master series (Part 1 - .NET/C#).
If you are interested in using Geometry in Silverlight 2, maybe this converter will catch your eye. It’s called Silverlight String-To-PathGeometry converter and can be used to produce a Path object from a string or the opposite – string from a Path object.
Check out this tip from Alex Golesh about the Initialization Parameters of the Silverlight application. And one more about the communication between two Silverlight objects on a single page.
Need a TreeView control in Silverlight 2? Take a look at DevCorner’s Silverlight TreeView at CodePlex.