The Quadra team has published their Silverlight Dialog control. Some of the features it has are templated xaml, sizeable/user resizeable, support for absolute/relative positioning and so on. You may download the demo and the source code or just see the demo online.
Tim Greenfield has a post about reusable Silverlight border control with a header. This is a fun and useful UI control and Tim suspects that many developers out there are writing it over and over again. It’s not included in the framework, toolkit, or any of the open source libraries, so Tim decided to share it and save everyone a little work.
Nick on Silverlight and WPF has a post in which he presents a couple of command helper classes for Silverlight & WPF. The Command class he shows will give you a quick and easy way to define commands and ways to invoke them: keyboard shortcuts, context menus, toolbars, etc.
Ronnie Saurenmann from the Swiss MSDN Team has published an article called “Silverlight White-labeling: "Dynamically" downloading and applying styles from a web server”. There are cases where your Silverlight app will be hosted or displayed on different web sites. Naturally it comes with the need to adapt some of the visuals to the target web site. Classics are colors, fonts and images. See Ronnie’s step by step in order to learn how to accomplish this in Silverlight 2.
Adam Kinney is so excited to find that Silverlight 3 sessions are announced for MIX09 . In his post you will find some of the session titles and descriptions.
Tim Heuer has posted about the Amazon S3 publishing plugin for Expression Encoder. The Expression team has developed a publishing plugin to have the content upload to Silverlight Streaming services (which is a free service). With this type of plugin, in just one click you can have encoded, player output, and upload with ease.
Alex Golesh has written the introduction or as he call it “the teaser” to his series of articles about Silverlight in the Mesh and the “Cloud”. For quite some time Alex has been investigating the Azure Services and Live Framework. After gaining some experience, he decided to build simple project - Content Store – to share with you how to build the next generation of applications.
Jaime Rodriguez has the third part of his XAML guidelines series. He actually presents some drafts to the guidelines,because he wants to see your feedback first and then he’ll publish the final version, taking your opinion into consideration.
Mike Ormond has a post about creating 3D models for WPF. He thought it might be useful to share the 3D models he has created. Mike has uploaded the XAML files for each of these models for your convenience.