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Have you ever wanted to develop game in Silverlight, but do not know what to start with? Well, Andy Beaulieu has made a great list of resources about getting started with Silverlight game development.

Silverlight Spy for RC0 is available and ready for download! It is cool that, Silverlight Spy still supports even Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and automatically selects the Silverlight version that is installed on your machine.
Valentin Stoychev from Telerik draws our attention to the blog post of Katrien De Graeve about the different ways for loading images and files in Silverlight 2 applications.
David Anson (aka "Delay") has created a wonderful desktop tool for inspecting (and copying) the styles and templates of the Silverlight controls. The complete source code of the tool is also included in the downloaded package.
Flash vs. Silverlight: The match continues and the referee Terence Tsang, offers us one game more, the Spiral Text.
I remember an article, some time ago, stating that outlining text in Silverlight was not possible. Well, with RC0 it is seems it’s possible. To find out how, read Bill Reiss’ post ‘Finally, outlining text in Silverlight good enough for now’.
Client-side HTML controls for Silverlight 2 by Jeff Wilcox – “What if you could use and create ASP.NET-like web controls that are 100% client-side, powered by the Silverlight 2 runtime? What if ViewState was a thing of the past? Would you like to...” Check out the suggestion of Jeff.
Frank La Vigne announced the CapArea.NET Silverlight SIG (Special Interest Group) in one of his last blog posts. Currently there are three founders of the SIG: Frank La Vigne, Pete Brown and Marc Fredericson.
Silverlight RC0 Offline Documentation Download – “You can get the RC0 offline docs here. Using this file you don't have to deal with the delay of online browsing and when you do a search, you are only searching in Silverlight content…”
Tamir Khason informs us that MSDN download center just published video catalogs, where you can find sample chapters of Total Training’s video series for Microsoft Expression studio. Worth to download and see.
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