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DevExpress Channel is Now Broadcasting Product Training Videos and Live Interviews – DevExpress is proud to announce the newest addition to its web properties - the DevExpress Channel – broadcasting at tv.devexpress.com. The DevExpress Channel offers to the software development community access to over 100 product training videos and dozens of one on one interviews.

Using a ConverterParameter in a Silverlight 2 Value Converter by Synergist – find out how to pass parameter from Xaml to your custom converter class used by the binding. Sample source code is available.
Silverlight data binding and value converters by Tim Heuer – Very focused and comprehensible post. Data binding, custom converters and converter parameter are again in the spot light.
Kaxml now supports the latest version of Silverlight! If you have not tried it already, go and download it now - only 1.6 MB and it’s free. You will be amazed how easy is to play with Xaml…
Jesse Liberty – first post DataBinding and Data Templates contains link to his new tutorial, second one is One of the most unusual books I’ve ever written and last but not least One Team – 4 Books on ASP.NET 3.5. Congratulations Jessy, three posts in just one day. When we grow up we are going to be just like you.
Mike Taulty and Part 1 and Part 2 of Silverlight 2 and HTML 5 - Being Online/Offline – Read this post and find out what functionality is supported by FireFox 3 and will be by IE 8 and how we could use it in Silverlight. The complete source code of the example is available for download.
Show/Hide a Border and other Border fun by mparsons – If you are not familiar with the borders in Silverlight, this post will help you clear them up.
Adam Kinney has updated the list of Silverlight Communities on the Ch9 wiki to reflect the most recent list of Silverlight User Groups that he is aware of. Hey SilverlightShow is also mentioned there in the Forums section, 10x guys!
Silverlight Desktop Application Launcher by chrishayuk - This application allows you to run any silverlight application locally on your desktop.
 
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