YouCard: Implementing the ViewModel pattern - Jonas Follesø sent this awesome example of the ViewModel pattern and Commands in Silverlight. uCard is an application that aggregates content about your friends from Twitter and Flickr - you may have already seen in it REMIX08 keynote in Sydney. Thanks, Jonas, keep it coming!
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First Look - WebAqua.NET 2.0 - Jimmy Petrus just announced that Intersoft Solutions' Silverlight controls are on their way. The fancy fish-eye menu comes with full design time support in Blend 2.5.
Animating Brushes with ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames - Shawn Wildermuth is telling a story from a recent class - learn how to switch a resource-based brush in the Visual State Manager.
Silverlight application performance - refresh rate & CPU usage - Building a nice looking Silverlight application is not the end. Only a static UI can consume 25-30% of your CPU and that's exactly what Alex Golesh discusses - optimizing your application and controlling how fast it should redraw the UI.
Silverlight PhotoGallery - Cool Silverlight photo gallery you can put on your site. You just need to modify an XML file to set the location of your images and you are ready to show off your nice pictures.
Storing an object in the Tag property in Silverlight - Bill Reiss discusses the Tag property in FrameworkElements and especially the complexities you could fall into if you try to give it an object.
Animating control Content between States - This post takes a look in the different solutions of how you can animate control Content between states. Issues in some special scenarios are also discussed.
Drawing Fractal Trees - Avi Pilosof has a 2 part tutorial that describes the fractals, the fractals in trees and how they can be implementation with Silverlight.
Maintaining access to Silverlight 2's generic.xaml resources - Update for the SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser is pushed out to reflect the changes from the latest Silverlight release (2.0.30523.8)
Major Silverlight Spy update - a new version of Silverlight Spy is available with tons of new features - XAP package, IsolatedStorage and Control Style inspection is now supported. Great work from First Floor software. We all appreciate your work guys!
Silverlight & Streaming Media - Alex Golesh shows off what could be done with Silverlight in terms of work with streaming media.
Silverlight Layout Fundamentals Part 1 - What is Layout? - Dave Relyea started a series of articles on Silverlight 2's layout system. If you are using Silverlight 2 in a real business application I'm sure you have already noticed the lack of good layout system and controls. Dave did a pretty good work demonstrating the current layout system capabilities.
Protecting Secrets in your Silverlight Applications - Page Brooks wrote about a very important point in writing Silverlight application - securiring the XAP. It is not safe to store secrets anywhere inside your app as they can easily be extracted. You should definitely read this post if you are not familiar with building secure applications in Silverlight.