Shidonni is a web site meant for kid's entertainment, that uses a very cool Silverlight 2 drawing tool, that gives you the possibility to draw your own animal, its environment and even its food. The site also offers other games and stuff. It describes itself as "a virtual universe, where kids and their parents can create their own imaginary world, play games, have fun and interact in a friendly, non-violent environment".
Shawn Burke announced the roster of the new team that Microsoft has assembled. They will focus on developing controls for use in Silverlight and WPF. More information about the team and the controls you can find in this post Shawn wrote yesterday.
If you haven't don it yet, check out the new project Martin Grayson posted on CodePlex - "BlackLight". It's a collection of controls, samples, visual assets that are focused on the user experience. You can also find a demo application for some of the controls here and feel the experience.
Here is the next Tip of the Day by Mike Snows under the number 42 - How to Create a Web Service for your Silverlight App.
Manish Dalal has posted his sixth article from the series about Silverlight in Business applications. This part is about IEditableObject and adding new time. Here are the other parts - Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
Adam Kinney takes the challenge to post once in a day something worth sharing till PDC 2008. And I also hear that other bloggers are ready to that, so this means a lot of information that surely will come in handy! Good luck, guys!
Jesse Liberty continues the discussion around the creating of Custom controls with this new article called "Dependency Properties – Background for Custom Controls".
Here is another Flash vs Silverlight by ShineDraw. There already really cool stuff made in both Flash and Silverlight by him and I'm glad that he continues to post more and more. This time in focus are some mathematics - a little red ball draws the graphic of a equation by moving forth and back, but better see it for yourself.
Now you can download the dev builds of Google Chrome and see the fixes for Silverlight and Flash. For information read this post by Jon Galloway about running Silverlight 2 on Google Chrome using the Chrome Dev Channel.
Have you already checked out the new game from Physics Powered Games. It's called Diver and implements great physics.
Adam Cooper comes with an improvement for the mouse wheel support of the ScrollViewer control in Silverlight 2.
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