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Janete Perez has posted a few blog posts on Photoshop Import in Expression Blend 3 and recently one on Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend 3. The posts are definitely worth checking out if you think will ever need to import graphics into Blend.

Rick Barraza from Cynergy has been doing some great work showing how to use WritableBitmap and PixelShaders to create some very interesting effects in Silverlight. Check out both his recent posts Advanced Render Techniques with WriteableBitmaps and Fluid Dynamics in Silverlight.

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.

Chris Cavanagh always seems to pick interesting projects. This time he's created a new WPF Web Browser control that plays nice with the WPF layout system and can be transformed. Grab the source code or take a peek at his 3D Browser in the works.

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.

David Isbitski demonstrates how to install the PDC2009 font and then embed it in a Silverlight application. The nice thing is that the Font embed work can be done and customized with just a few clicks in the Font Manager tool in Blend.

6 tutorials on Web Slices have been posted to MSDN. "In these short lessons, you will learn how to add Web Slices to an existing Web page. You start with a Web page that contains a fictitious conference schedule, a weather report, and ticket auction for a hit Broadway musical. Initially,…

Yes, you read that right, Internet Explorer was named by NSS Labs the Most Secure Browser. Giorgio Sardo, our IE Evangelist, fittingly has all the details.

Charles Petzold posted a Flag Effect sample with source code for Silverlight. The image is diced up into many small square representations of an area of the image that is then transformed in coordination with all of the other elements.

This is a very cool WritableBitmap sample from Joa Ebert with source code included. This was his first test with Silverlight, but it obviously shows his ActionScript skills transfer pretty easily.