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Today we start with Mike Snows and his tip of the day. Mike shows how to access the Html DOM from Silverlight.

Jesse Liberty shares his plans about his upcoming Tutorials and Videos till the end of the year and the first half of the next one. Also don't miss his article - "Tag Property – The Diplomatic Pouch of Silverlight", it's great and provides a very useful information.

Jeff Paries presents the cover of his upcoming book "Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation". Along the cover image there are a few more projects from the book.

Bill Reiss uploaded his PathTextBlock control to CodePlex. With it you are able to display outlined text and distort it. A really cool control, Bill! :)

Tim Heuer comes with this short post about Silverlight 2 UI Templates and need of well-designed control templates and styles for developers. He also gives hints how we can find such and where to contribute them. Also don't miss his post about XAML Power Toys for Silverlight that will improve the work with the XAML editor in Visual Studio 2008 and his post about the PathTextBlock control made by Bill Reiss.

Laurence Moroney wrote a great article about how to present Office documents with DeepZoom and Silverlight.

Here is the next Flash vs Silverlight form ShineDraw and this time the topic is full screen. Take a look for yourself how the competitors are doing.

Jaime Rodriguez announced that the WPF Pixel Shader Effects Library is on CodePlex.

An at the end two tips form Lee's Corner. The first one is about DataGrid in ComboBox and the second one is about Changing Foreground of cells that are modified in DataGrid.

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