If you read my recent article "How to Get Files From Resources in Silverlight 2.0", you'll see that loading a file embedded as resource takes only a few lines of code. You also have to remember the formats of the URI. Well, that is going to change today, because now you'll need to write just a single line of developer-friendly code.More...

Questions like "How to load an embedded bitmap programmatically?" appear in Silverlight.net forum every single day, and some people actually think it is impossible to do such thing in Silverlight 2.0. Well, the truth is that not only is it possible but it is also damn easy.More...

I think the competition in Silverlight Controls market will be fierce. Just under a few months, developers have created a handful of UI controls for Silverlight 2.0 already. Well, some like VectorLight provides it for free with full source code (maybe for now?). The VectorLight's controls set include Calendar, Dropdown List, Fieldset, ListBox, Textbox, TextArea, Tree View, Progress Bar, and Text Label.

VectorLight Controls Demo