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I have already most of it ready, and am working on the sample apps, which is a great way to identify things that are missing from the toolkit. I already learned a lot from working on this, as well as the many discussions around this with my peers in the community.

Easily lost among all the exciting announcements here at Mix is some great news about the Silverlight Toolkit.

Ken Cox is now ready with the seventh episode of his series on creating a Silverlight 2 data form and this time he is going to talk about adding visual appeal.

NETiKA TECH has just released the Beta 3 of their new product “GOA Toolkit for Silverlight”. This toolkit focuses on what they call “ListControl”, which is a kind of “advanced”  ItemsControl. By using a ListControl, you can build advanced Lists, Menus, Tabs, Trees, Toolbars and so on.Here are provided some pre-built controls in an open source library called “GOA Open”. Learn more about this unique product.

Jesse Liberty announced that his videos on the Silverlight Toolkit PieChart and Columns chart are now available. According to Jesse, the great thing here is that once you understand how one of these charts works, working with the other becomes almost self-evident.

Michael Washington has a post about Silverlight File Uploader for all you DNN folks. Silverlight File Uploader is a DotNetNuke 4 & 5 module that is a "wrapper" around the Open Source project Silverlight File Upload. It adds upload security that the original project does not currently have. It is now possible to create applications that allow your users to upload large files.

Shawn Wildermuth has two posts these days. The first one is to announce that the PnP team shipped their Inversion of Control (IoC) container for Silverlight called the Unity Application Block. The second one is called “Fun with List Bindings in Silverlight 2”. Back in Silverlight 1.0 days, Shawn wrote a quick little sample showing off how you could use ASP.NET AJAX Web Services to drive a Silverlight 1.0 app. Now he wants to re-do it for Silverlight 2. He has also re-created his chart example.

The Quadra team has posted one Silverlight tutorial on how to make a movable, rotating camera. This tutorial covers drawing an object on a Canvas and moving it around, rotating it, as well as a few other basic operations. In the post you will find source code and online demo.

Terence Tsang has a post about the difference on Timer, Enter Frame, Dispatcher Timer and Composition Target. In Flash and Silverlight, there are many ways to call a method by a regular time interval. Here Terence will use a simple sample to illustrate their differences on the following methods: Flash - flash.utils.Timer, Flash - Event.ENTER_FRAME, Silverlight - System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer and Silverlight - CompositionTarget.Rendering.

Andy Beaulieu has an article about Silverlight for Interactive CD/DVD. If you want to use Silverlight as a solution for an Interactive CD, then you should definitely read Andy’s post.

Bill Reiss has a frame based sprite animation in Silverlight. Bill is presenting one out of many ways of potentially doing frame based sprite animation. The technique he has chosen is a combination of a "sprite strip" and a clipping region.

Here is one entry for the 10K Contest. Eric Oszakiewski has submitted his Pool Guide. With it you can test your swimming pool with any pool test kit and then use this guide to determine if the water is balanced.

Fons Sonnemans has made a Silverlight 2.0 Sudoku. It is mainly a programming exercise, so there aren't too many multimedia bells and whistles.