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Jesse Liberty talks about two training projects he will be working on to coincide with the release fo Silverlight 3.  The first entitled imaginatively Better-Videos is his continued refinement of his Silverlight video tutorials.  The second is a new project…

Although you may not speak German, the smooth experience of the Konfigurator comes through via the images and motion.  You can check out a video of the Konfigurator in action or start using it to customize your own Mazda.  Keep an eye out for the Deep Zoom of the interiors,…

A new version of Deep Zoom Composer is available that offers many new requested features.  Along with better memory usage one feature I'm most looking forward to checking out is the added Navigation functionality.  Zooming into a collection of pictures is nice, but if I can do…

Jaime Rodriguez has written a great tutorial on PlaneProjection in Silverlight 3. Jaime explains how to relate common 3D concepts to PlaneProjection in Silverlight. You can see the transforms in action by playing around with parameters on his Sandbox page. Or you can…

PlayBits is launching their Silverlight Game Engine Early Adopter program on June 30th.  The details of the Program are available on the PlayBits blog.  Check out their Video Gallery to see the Game Engine in action.

I have previously written about the UNPLUGGED road trip that Mike, Nathan and I have been on. I also mentioned that I would be making a screen cast and sharing the source code from the Silverlight 3 Line of Business demo that I delivered. The demo that I presented was based on Scott…

Nikhil Kothari has posted a a sample application that demonstrates a ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight.  As an added bonus the sample uses the New York Times Newswire API, and is running on teh Silverlight.FX framework.

Erik Mork from the Sparkling Client podcast has posted a 10-minute episode on Projects that Benefit from Prism. Erik interviews Shawn Wildermuth and from the Patterns and Practices team Bob Brumfield and David Hill who all have opinions on when its best to…

As a result of an exploration in Resolution Independent Icon Design, Thomas Immich demonstrates how Deep Zoom can be leveraged for rendering different image versions of an icon. I love the idea of resizing an application that adapts to the new space while maintaining crisp icons. Check…

Janete Perez covers in detail the process of importing a Photoshop (.PSD) file into Blend 3. Its really great to see the new amount of information that is persisted during the import, including detailed functionality like Maximize Compatibility. Looking forward to Part 2 which will be posted on…