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The MSN Korean team has added a new Silverlight Photo viewer on their main site.  Its nice and subtle and rotates time-based or by mouse hover, bu there are two interesting details. First, they "localized" the Silverlight install experience. In Korea, people are…

Nigel Parker, who worked on the NZsynth application from WEB09, has posted the NZSynth source code, end-to-end video covering the development and links to all of his resources and tools.  I really like the added popup full photo feature, that's available when you…

Dan Wahlin demonstrates a simple but very effective tip for Making Silverlight 3 Application Code More Compatible with Blend.  The topic is centered around using a method exposed by the platform allowing to check when your code is running in DesignTime.

Regex Hero is a free online Regular Expression Tool written in Silverlight.  Not only does that make it easier for the author to add instantaneous highlighting, but it also provides the user an easy way to test against the .NET regular expression engine. For mroe details check…

This is going to be a killer Workshop at PDC09: "Come learn how the robust features of Silverlight 3 help developers to create innovative, compelling cross-platform internet applications without being limited by HTML and Javascript. In addition, hear some of the best practices and…

Jesse Liberty, our official Silverlight Geek, walks us through his first Silverlight 3 application built with Visual studio 2010 Beta 1 running on Windows 7 RC.  Yes it works!  Check out his Example-Code Quality Guarantee.

Jose Fajardo has published a 4-part video series on the Power of States which highlights both the States feature within the Silverlight platform and the support for the feature in Expression Blend. He demonstrates his own technique along with the new features in version 3.

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,…

Dan Wahlin has posted a tutorial on Cleaning Up the Disabled State of a Silverlight Control using Expression Blend. He shows how simple it is to update a control's template when it doesn't match the look of your UI.

Peter Blois has posted a technique for creating Silverlight control templates from Illustrator artwork. In order to make the custom artwork scale appropriately he makes use of his Silverlight Nine Grid.