Toys for Tweets - Jeff Paries shows off a fun Silverlight Twitter demo that displays "twemes" - hash-tagged tweets from Twitter. Simply put, it displays 5 chat bubbles - the 5 latest twemes tagged with #teched08.
Visual State Manager - Beta 2 is not even out yet, but articles about using the new features have already started to pop out. In three separate articles Christian Schormann introduces the concept behind the Visual State Manager, its goals and finally gives an example of using it building a simple chord finder. Tim Heuer also discusses the power of the View State Manager and makes some customization on the UI templates of the Button control.
Skinning Silverlight controls just got easier - Have you imagined for "Edit Template" functionality in Blend? For WPF it was supported, but now with the release of Blend 2.5 June 2008 it is also supported for Silverlight. Tim Heuer shows how to skin every little detail of the ScrollBar with the latest version of the designer tool.
What's new in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 - the Silverlight SDK team blogged about the new features in Beta 2 showing a full list of changes.
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Tab Control - this one is by Tim Heuer again. Maybe we should let him write the news - he has a gift for that :) In his post he introduces the new Tab Control and shows a little example to present its functionalities.