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So I’ve been a very, very busy bee with a bunch of projects, and there’s been no lack of well-deserved teasing for not posting to this blog in 8 months.  I guess the best way to silence the critics would be a good-old-fashioned link-off.  Here’s my list of high quality Silverlight 3 content that you’ve got to check out.

Showcase Sites & Samples

• MGM Stargate Website
• Expression Blend 3 Samples Deconstructed by Nibbles Tutorials
• Building a Silverlight 3 File Transfer Application
• Live Maps, Silverlight, Azure mash up by BGI Solutions

Expression Blend & SketchFlow

• Great set of custom behaviors for Expression Blend on CodePlex.
• Actions, Triggers, and Behaviors in Blend by Mike Taulty
• Sketching and Prototyping with Blend 3 by SilverlightShow

Interactivity & Behaviors

• Blend 3 Behaviors – Interactivity without Code by Christian Schormann
• Behaviors – Making Interactivity Easy (and fun) by Kirupa
• Using Behaviors – A quick walkthrough by Kirupa
• Blend 3 – Triggers, Actions, Behaviors by Christian Schormann
• Blend 3 Behaviors – A Simple Action by Christian Schormann

Application Lifecycle & Composition

• Application Services in Silverlight by Shawn Wildermuth
• Assembly Caching in Silverlight 3 by Sergey Barsky 
• Telerik Sales Dashboard that uses Prism for composition by Bilal Haidar

Navigation

• Relative Hyperlinks with Silverlight Navigation by David Poll
• On-Demand loading of assemblies with Silverlight Navigation by David Poll
• Adding Transitions to the Frame Control by David Poll
• Silverlight 3 Navigation: Even More on Dynamically Loaded Pages (using MEF) by Brad Abrams

DataForm

• A quick look at the Silverlight 3 DataForm control Video by SilverlightShow
• Silverlight 3 DataForm control features by Vikram Pendse
• Creating Rich data forms in Silverlight 3 by SilverlightShow
• Silverlight 3 DataForm Control Mapping by Naughton Futilities

Data Binding / Data Services (not RIA Services)

• So, what is a Silverlight Value Converter anyway by Dan Wahlin
• ADO.NET Data Services with SubSonic by Alexey Zakharov
• Silverlight 3 SketchFlow DataBinding by Malcolm Sheridan

RIA Services

• Displaying background activity in a Silverlight RIA Application by David Poll
• Fluent API for .NET RIA Services Metadata (ever want a way to define metadata at runtime?) by Nikhil Kothan
• Business Apps Example: .NET RIA Services and the ViewModel by Brad Abrams
• Search Engine Optimization using .NET RIA Services by Brad Abrams
• Building a Data Driven Expense Reporting application by Jonathan Carter and Terry Adams 

WPF / XAML cross-breeds

• XAML Powre Toys for Silverlight and WPF – a must have – by Karl on WPF
• Accessing the entire range of colors in procedural code by Pancho Popadiyn 

Connecting with the Silverlight Team

• Silverlight Suggestion Box – even has voting capabilities!

Development silverlight, ria services, dataform