Visual WebGui is an open source AJAX framework, targeted at enabling smooth fast and risk free framework to enable AJAX / Silverlight for complex, data intensive IT level application GUI. Visual WebGui AJAX framework is based on a revolutionary ON-Server approach that offers the highest simplicity in designing and programming, secured front ends and industrial strength that allows unlimited application size and weight on web.

Visual WebGui Features

• AJAX application development using WinForms development patterns and practices with no prior AJAX (or web development) skills.
• WinForms controls (most of .NET 2.0 controls) implemented for VWG.
• Ability to create custom controls (including full inheritance).
• Ability to interoperate with existing ASP.NET controls and pages.
• Ability to customize control behavior and appearance.
• .NET 1.x/2.0 support.

Kit3D is a 3D graphics engine written to work with Microsoft Silverlight. The library is currently written in JavaScript and supports 3D perspective projection and texture mapping. This library allows anyone to easily create 3D content for their Silverlight application. Several online demos are available. 

This cool Flickr's picture uploader in SilverLight recreated by AdvertBoy shows how Silverlight application can upload pictures to Flickr.

It's no surprise that enterprise developers are putting a lot of investments in Silverlight. ComponentOne is no different from the others. It's just they have created the first clone of Google Finance Chart in Silverlight. Meet ComponentOne's Stock Portfolio Manager Demo which features stock chart with interactive scroll and zoom.

Telerik an awards-winning producer of ASP.NET Controls has made the demos of their Silverlight controls available online. The actual controls are not released yet, but in the demos you can view the related XAML and C# markup. The demos feature the following controls: RadAnimations, RadButtons (6 types), RadCombobox, RadListBox, RadMenu, RadProgressBar, RadSlider, RadTabStrip, RadTextBox, RadTreeView and RadUpload.

More details from Todd Anglin's blog post.

Christmas has been celebrated for years but this year is different, totally, because for the first time people can share Silverlight Christmas Cards. And I'm just in time to post this:

• Season's Greetings From Microsoft
• Online Spotlight, Norway
• Happy Holidays From ObjectSharp
• FranksWorld Special Presentation

On November 29 2007, Microsoft Silverlight Team officially announced that Silverlight 1.1 would be renamed to Silverlight 2.0, a jump from a revision to a version. Initially, they had expected several minor upgrades from Silverlight 1.0, but it turned out the opposite. By adding together the Common Language Runtime, Base Class Libraries, Dynamic Language Runtime, the UI Frameworks, DRM, and a shipload of other features, the most appropriate name is definitely Silverlight 2.0.

More details from Tim Sneath's blog post.

NETiKA Technologies has developed a set of controls that has WinForms Controls' look-and-feel for Microsoft Silverlight (and Adobe Flash). From their live demos, you can see buttons, checkboxes, textboxes, menus, lists, treeviews, tabs, toolbars, calendars and even DataGrids! It is pretty impressive that they did it before Microsoft does. Formal WinForms-like controls are expected to be shipped by Microsoft for Silverlight 2.0.

I've found this nice tutorial video by Scott Guthrie. He demonstrates how to build a simple Silverlight application using .NET in about 23 minutes.