Silverlight Girl has made one very useful tutorial about creating shadow effect in Expression Blend. She uses 5 Rectangle shapes in total: one to be the object and other four to form the shadow. Check what else she has made.
Steve Commisso has a post which is a combination of a few Silverlight
extenders – DragExtender, RotateScaleXtender, KeyExtender and FillContainerExtender. There are also a running example,
source code, and a snippet from the test harness showing example usage.
David Wynne has written the article “Silverlight and the View-View Model Pattern “
in which he demonstrates the key aspects of the pattern. He had posted source code which contains all the core components and a number of Unit Tests to play with. You just have to set the StandardViewModel.Test project as the start-up project and hit F5 to run them.
Joe Stegman has two new posts – the first one is about Silverlight browser support. This post provides a bit of details on what it means to be an officially supported Silverlight browser and what experience you should expect from not officially supported browsers. The second one is about Silverlight and Opera. Joe and his team did some level of Opera testing and looked at customer reported Silverlight/Opera issues.
Andy Beaulieu announced that the Physics Helper Library for Blend and Silverlight now supports Farseer 2.0! Thanks to Ian Qvist, Andy was able to resolve the tunneling issues with Farseer 2.0.
If you are new to the Silverlight world and are looking for a gentle introduction to this technology, then you should definitely check the series of posts of Agata Staniak. The first two posts are here now: “Silverlight Basics #1: Introduction for dummies” and “Silverlight Basics #2: The anatomy of a “Hello world” application”.
At Lee’s Corner there is a sample application. Lee wanted to see how easy or difficult it will be to do an app in Silverlight without using code behind. The only code behind that you will see is the default code that is generated when a xaml page is added.
Tim Greenfiel demonstrates how to add a secure login with credentials to your Silverlight application. Learn something more about this great technique used to safely allow your users to login to your Silverlight applicaton from other places.