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Check out the latest release of Silverlight Contrib (Alpha 2 - Silverlight 2 Compatible).

Silverlight Contrib is a collection of open source Silverlight Controls and API enhancements built for and by the Silverlight developer community. The goal of this project is to complement Silverlight and make the lives of Silverlight developers easier.

The set features 5 Controls;

• Color Picker
• Gauge Control
• Star Selector
• Enhanced Metafile (EMF)
• OSX Dock like Menu

And 8 Library items;

• Zip Compression
• Byte Utilities
• String Utilities
• Simple Text Parser
• Animation Tweening
• Wheel Mouse Listener
• Clipboard Helper - (IE Only)
• Data Context Extension Method Wrapper

The coolest features, for me at least, is the Tweening framework and Zip compression which is a port of the ShareZip library. Check out the full functioning demos here.

Need to make a Silverlight app portable?

Sure, you could just create an exe from studio. But what if you don’t have Studio available and want to quickly package up an xap file? Blendables Labs Desklighter allows you to package Silverlight xap files in an executable for distribution.

Desklighter is a windows utility that can convert Silverlight applications into standalone desktop applications. The output from Desklighter is a single executable file that can display the Silverlight content on windows desktops without requiring a hosting server or a browser. Desklighter enables users to carry a Silverlight application off the web to wherever they need it.

Celso Gomes has relaunched the Nibbles Tutorials website using Silverlight 2. It features a new navigation structure and updated design.

Celso runs a great site with well thought out WPF and Silverlight tutorials. If you like it let him know on his Blog.

The Microsoft Expression team have released an updated version of Deep Zoom Composer (v0.9.000.5) to coincide with the release of Silverlight 2. There are a few minor reliability updates in this release but most notably are the updated project templates that are made to be 100% compatible with Silverlight 2.

ZDNet Australia has a piece on the Google and Mozilla implementations of JavaScript and it’s potential effect on Silverlight

I think that the next 18 months we’re going to see a 100 to 1,000 fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going to kick us all in the arse and make our JavaScript jittered

Scott Hanselman speaking at Tech.Ed

The SingTel Singapore Grand Prix is running a promotion called the SingTel Grid Girls.

In this Silverlight application you choose from one of 20 Grid Girls then complete a quiz to get your compatibility match. If you’re not a match you see a video of her looking disappointed, make a match and you get a special little prize.

Not too shabby.

Arafat Tehsin at Redmond Pie has put together a tutorial on creating an ASP.NET Silverlight application that sends email.

SmarterTools has released SmarterStats 4.x, the latest version of it’s web analytics tool. This release uses Silverlight for dynamic charting.

There is also a free edition available which allows you to run reporting on 1 site.

Looks like Microsoft has relaunched the Mojave Experiment website with a Silverlight front end. Initially the site was built in Flash, presumably to get as much exposure as possible when it first went live. Maybe now that the Olympics are over they feel the Silverlight plugin has enough penetration to switch to Silverlight.

The UI is nice and utilizes WPF’s DeepZoom to navigate the video windows.

Is it me or are the video playback controls a little hard to use though? If I inadvertently click in a video area the video restarts from the beginning, and the lack of a scrub bar makes this a little annoying.

Intersoft has launched an showcase for their upcoming Silverlight Interface Component Library. The demo site is very well put together and the concepts are well executed. Features include CoverFlow browsing and FishEye menus.


We love to see new Silverlight/WPF components and really appreciate their efforts. I just have one big problem with the demo site.

Explore the next generation User Interface for Silverlight 2.0. Indulge yourself with elegant navigation and brand-new UX concept. …

ORLY? Seems I’ve seen these “brand-new UX concepts” someplace before.