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David Anson will explain to you how to implement the WeakEvent pattern on Silverlight with the WeakEventListener class.

One of the nice things about developing on a platform that uses a garbage collecting memory manager (like Silverlight and WPF) is that the traditional concerns about memory leaks pretty much go away; most common types of memory leaks are impossible in a garbage collected environment. I say "most" and not "all" because there are still a few ways to leak memory - typically by creating a reference to an object and then "forgetting" about that reference. Sometimes this forgetfulness is simply an oversight on the part of the developer, but sometimes it is due to the reference being created in such a way that it's not obvious it even exists...

Andrej Tozon will explain you how to make Silverlight Toolkit’s TreeView bindable two-way.

Jesse Liberty has posted the second part of his articles about the Expander control.

Michael S. Scherotter explains how to use Silverlight Toolkit WrapPanel in your Listbox.

Jesse Liberty has created a quick introduction to the HeaderContentControl of the Silverlight Toolkit that will lay the ground work for future entries on the Expander control.

Pete Brown has an article on the theme “Pie Chart Styling in the Silverlight Toolkit - Cross-Slice Gradients”. He was inspired to write this post by Mehdi and Jafar Husain. Reading this will help you to apply your own pallet to your pie charts and to create some nice subtle shading effects.

The new release of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2008 v3 is now here and it includes over 30 Silverlight controls. Illuminate your RIAs today with rich design, interactivity, and enhanced performance.

Silverlight Toolkit launched – check out all the articles, samples, demos and comments about the Silverlight Toolkit release.

News from the PDC08 - Part 2 – check out also what’s new from the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference.

Silverlight Bugs and Workarounds – Here you can see a list of some bugs and how you can work around them.

Expression Encoder 2 SP1 and IIS Smooth Streaming – Check out what is new about the Expression Encoder.

Currently Silverlight 2.0 application are not supported by Silverlight Streaming. Silverlight Streaming will be upgraded shortly to Silverlight 2 RTW. More details here.

As you may already know Scott Guthrie announced the launch of Silverlight Toolkit at PDC08. A lot of cool features are included. Check out yourself at CodePlex. You can also see the Demo.

Here are some related resources:

Silverlight Toolkit Now Available For Download - Shawn Burke talks about the launch of the Silverlight Toolkit.

Sorry boss, I just released the new Silverlight Controls source code to the world – Jeff Wilcox who was working on the AutoCompleteBox control in Silverlight Toolkit describes what features are included in the control.

Silverlight Toolkit - Using Silverlight TreeView Control – Michael Sync wrote the first QuickStart tutorial about Silverlight Toolkit dedicated to the TreeView control.

The Silverlight Toolkit is Live – Andy Beaulieu also wrote an article about using the TreeView control in Silverlight Toolkit.

Silverlight Toolkit (Silverlight 2 Control Pack) - Charting – Pete Brown also posted about the new Silverlight Toolkit. His article is about charting.

Silverlight Toolkit Overview and Samples - Dan Wahlin makes an overview of the controls in Silverlight Toolkit and gives some examples.

Silverlight Toolkit Released – More controls – Tim Heuer made some samples about Silverlight Toolkit.

Announcing a free, open source Charting solution for Silverlight - David Anson also made some samples focusing on the features included in the DataVisualization assembly.

New Silverlight controls suite delivered by Microsoft #PDC08 - Laurent Bugnion also makes an overview of the controls included in Silverlight Toolkit.

Toolkit release & Themes - Jesse Liberty is talking about themes in Silverlight Toolkit.