Offline Silverlight Applications by Mike Ormond – “…I think Scott Guthrie first mentioned the ability to take Silverlight applications offline in his keynote on Tuesday. It raised a few eyebrows but few details were forthcoming on how exactly this was accomplished…” Read more on Mike’s blog post.
Dan Wahlin has converted his Amazon.com AlbumViewer Application to Silverlight 2. For those of you interested in the source code, it is also available for download.
Themes Revisited: The Implicit Style Manager by Jesse Liberty – “…A powerful alternative is to use the ImplicitStyleManager to apply the theme to a single control or, more commonly, to a container (for example, a grid) and all its controls…” Go and check it out now.
Carole Snyder shares his knowledge with us about the custom controls creation in Silverlight 2. If you intend to create custom controls this is a must-read.
Here are three posts about Silverlight controls:
- Using the GridSplitter control with Silverlight 2 by Harsh Bardhan;
- AutoCompleteBox: article and video by Jeff Wilcox.
- Silverlight Menu Library by Azret Botash
Silverlight and the object tag by Corey Schuman – check out the complete list of the parameters available for Silverlight applications using the <object> tag.
Application Architecture Guide 2.0 - This is a guide containing consolidated set of principles, patterns, and practices for designing application architecture.