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Tip: Maximal and minimal zoom level in the MultiscaleImage control

Martin Mihaylov resolves a problem I've noticed in DZ apps ... that you either zoom the image into perfect nothingness, or you keep zooming in until you loose all focus... this is pretty darn useful!

Silverlight Visual Tree Investigation

Tamir Khason has been on a writing jag, apparently... it's only been 24 hours since I posted, and he's got 3 articles up! ... this first one on takes a shot at finding and holding references to all elements containing text... pretty cool :)

How to handle thickness

In this latest post, Tamir tackless Thickness, such as Border Thickness, and along the way explains tokenizing values in SL. He also has a link to his 3rd article on Type Converters... don't skip that one either!

Tip of the Day #15 – Communicating between JavaScript & Silverlight

Mike Snow has a tip up on talking back and forth between SL and JS. Yeah I know there's a lot of folks out there that hate JS, but hey... this is the good stuff!

The Making of Deep Zoom Obama: By Donavon West

I didn't post the DeepZoomObama.com site when I saw it even though it was fun to play with because it was just a demo, but now Donavon West has submitted an article explaining it to the Writing contest Michael Sync has going on. Donavon explains the aggregation and some very fun things along the way to getting it all going, such as the AndreaMosaic generator...

Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player: By David

David (nope, not me) also posted an article to Michael on bulding a Silverlight Video Player...

Tutorial on Styles & Templates Now Available

Jesse Liberty's Styles and Templates Tutorial he wrote about yesterday is now ready for prime time, so go take a look at that in your favorite format.

Swift3D and Silverlight

Frank LaVigne discusses Swift3D, what it is, how it is used and how there is now Silverlight Support ... The demos look pretty cool... if you're interested in 3D, this will probably be on your list of things to look at!

Why is my Default.aspx page Always Executed?

Andy Beaulieu takes a somewhat common problem and digs deep enough to find a Silverlight twist to it, and hopefully will keep a lot of us from having the same problem... good one, Andy!

Page Brooks has been getting lots of email about the contest from tool vendors! Check out the prize list ... very cool -- and trust me, it's not up-to-date :)... and a personal thanks goes out to all the vendors from me!!

I know if I were going to be entering this contest, I'd probably not submit until the last possible moment, but as you can imagine, that is a tad nerve-wracking on those of us involved  

I don't know a solution to this unless you that are hard at work want to drop either Page or me a note just to let us know you're up to something. I totally understand the need to keep things close to your vest, but maybe a thread at the SilverlightCream Forum would be fun to see who all is involved, if for nothing more than an "I'm working on something, leave me alone" note!

For the mere mortals, like me, don't forget Adam Kinney posted a great tutorial as a starting point: Building a Simple Custom Control in Silverlight 2

As I said last time, I'm excited about seeing what the submissions look like.

Stay in the 'Light!