The Continuum Show

Rick Barrazafrom 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 postsAdvanced Render Techniques with WriteableBitmapsand Fluid Dynamics in Silverlight.

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

Dan Wahlinhas posted a tutorial onCleaning 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 forcreating Silverlight control templates from Illustrator artwork. In order to make the customartwork scale appropriately he makes use of his Silverlight Nine Grid.

David Isbitski demonstrateshow to install the PDC 2009 font and then embed it in a Silverlight application. The nice thing is thatthe Font embed work can bedone and customizedwith 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...

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

Charles Petzold posteda Flag Effectsample with source code for Silverlight. The image is diced up into many small square representations of an area of the image that is thentransformed in coordination with all of the other elements.

This is a verycool WritableBitmap sample from Joa Ebertwith source code included. This was his first test with Silverlight, but it obviously shows his ActionScriptskills transfer pretty easily.

Peter Bloishas created a Scale 9 grid in Silverlight. Using pixel shaders and Blend extensibility, Peter has a found a solutionwith design-time support and good performance.

TheArcGIS API for Silverlight and WPF has been released along with a showcase application demonstrating some of the key concepts...

To helpprepare your applications for Windows 7, download the Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers.The kit includes code, videos and labs forboth native Win32 C++ developers and .NET developers covering the newfeatures available in Windows 7.

Joel Neubeck has posted two new behaviors.The first he calls the Flip TriggerAction, which provides the flipping postcard in the 3D space effect when clicked...

TheHome Shopping Network hasupgraded their site to Silverlight 3 and theirbroadcast feeds to HD. This is the first 24x7 Smooth Streaming site that is accessible to the public.Almost makes you want to buy something... :)