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Silverlight news for September 29, 2008

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Ed Silverton comes with a great 3D photo explorer combined with flickr.com. Don't hesitate to check it out it's really cool!

Delay demonstrates how to get LayoutTransform behavior using RenderTransform.

Lee shows how to workaround the issue with the ComboBox in a Datagrid column in Silverlight 2 RC0.

Shine Draw posted more Flash vs Silverlight. This time he shows a simple text effect, a Laser Orbitdancing polygons and a Resilience Rectangle.

The Expression Blend team has provided some DeepZoomComposer project templates that are compatible with Silverlight 2 RC0.

Jesse Liberty starts a series of articles about the breaking that came with Silverlight 2 RC0. Here are the first two of them: Skinnable Custom Controls – Change to generic.xaml and RC0 & ContentPresenter.

Bill Reiss starts a discussion about the quality of the text rendering in Silverlight 2. Has the release candidate brought an improvent?

Shawn Wildermuth wrote an article about the WebClient and the WebRequest. It's a comparison type, so expect a lot of useful information. Also check out his post about the Silverlight 2 Tools Release Candidate.

The Synergist has successfully made his first beta 2 to rc0  porting and around the process he found out an improvement that was made to the clientaccesspolicy file. You can read more about that here.

Pete Brown shares a very useful tip about the release candidate, the VSM styles and the WSOD (White screen of death).

Bart Czernicki posted some important and less obvious things developers need to know about the Silverlight 2 release candidate.

Jeff Handley shows how to bind nullable values in Xaml.

Matthias Shapiro wrote an article about how to style a Silverlight ScrollViewer. He makes it look just like in Mac OS. And also check out his Silverlight color picker with source code available for download and his tutorial about Create a Zooming Button Style In Silverlight Without Code.

Here is more information about the Expression Blend SP1 Preview release. It will allow you to design applications for the Silverlight 2 release candidate.

Rotating images - Gerard Leblanc with a cool demo of rotating images made in Silverlight.

And last but not least is Mike Snows with the tip of the day - Font Support in Silverlight.

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