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Silverlight 3.0 has a great new feature called Behaviors. You can use them for a lot of things, one of them is to create a SNOW effect in a canvas. I know it is not yet Christmas but I like to be prepared. If you don't know what a behavior is or how to write them read first this blog post from Andrea Boschin.

You can download the sourcecode from here.

I finally found some time to test the beta of Visual Studio 2010. No problems found yet. It even supports a visual designer (Cider) for Silverlight projects. You can now use it to drag & drop controls from your toolbox, add rows/columns to a grid and set properties. Things which where only possible in Expression Blend.

I didn't go to the MIX09. Luckily Microsoft has published the sessions using high quality videos. Here are my favorites:

• Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls
• Consuming Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight 3
• What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3
• High-Speed RIA Development with the Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit
• .NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET
• Miss March and Other Distractions
• Building Amazing Business Centric Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3
• Microsoft ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level
• Building Data-Driven Scalable AJAX Web Pages
• Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 : What's Next?
• Choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC
• Web Form Design
• User Experience Design for Non-Designers
• Ten Ways to Ensure RIA Failure
• RESTful Services for the Programmable Web with Windows Communication Foundation
• What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4
• What's New for Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Developers in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

The Silverlight 3.0 Beta is out. Tim Heuer has written a great blog with all the new features. I have added the new SaveFileDialog to my Sudoku.

Now I can start to write a new Silverlight 3 training!.

Update 20 july 2009: Implemented Silverlight 3.0 RTW and moved the game to https://www.silverarcade.com/games/sonnemaf/sudoku