Site with quick stats about sliverlight plugin version and penetration statistics.

http://www.riastats.com/

Nice example of generated particles...

http://www.governor.co.uk/blog/2009/2/17/creating-particle-effects-in-silverlight

Oh well, might as well give it a go then:

Silverlight 3 Beta bits can be downloaded fromthis page

http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3/default.aspx

Pete Brown has just released a C64 emulator in Silverlight 3 Beta.  It brings back many happy memories from the 80's:

http://silverlightc64.codeplex.com/

It's really at an early prototype stage but shows off some of the new bitmap level manipulation properties available in Silverlight 3. At the moment is is far from optimised and requires a fat CPU to run properly. Cunningly it actually generates video using the new (in SL3) enhanced MediaStreamSource, which can also be used to generate audio at runtime. Plenty of scope for browser (or out of browser!) based applications for software synths etc. In fact that gives me an idea: rebirth or fruity loops as a browser app anyone?

http://tinyurl.com/c93aso

I'm already looking forward to an Amiga version ;) 

Get Silverlight 3 Beta here

Just found this, looks like a pretty decent framework from Nikhil Kothari to keep presentation separate from logic using an M-V-VM architecture, amongst other things including new UI controls:

http://projects.nikhilk.net/SilverlightFX

I've had IE8 installed since Beta on my PC at work. I'm concerned that the IE7 Compatability mode and 'standards compliant' modes will be yet another browser for us web developers to contend with. 

Download IE8 here

In fact you can either add a meta tag on the .aspx page meta-tag to force IE8 to render pages in IE7 emulation mode:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<add name="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=EmulateIE7">
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>
</configuration> 

You can configure IIS6 like this:

Go to Administrative Tools -> IIS 6 administration -> Properties -> HTTP Headers (tab) -> Add a new ‘Custom HTTP Header named “X-UA-Compatible” with a value “IE=EmulateIE7”.

Silverlight 3.0 beta has been announced at MIX09 developer conference in Las Vegas.

Nice to see some of the new features in the latest version of Silverlight 3.0:

Out-of-Browser Support

Out of browser support

You view applications in a browser in the usual way,  but can then install the applications on your local PC and run them off-line.

3D transformations

They are introducing the ability to treat 2D objects as if they are in 3D space. You can view this support as being able to render XAML onto a postcard and then position that postcard in 3D space (this is also called perspective transformations or non-affine transformations).

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/16/update-on-silverlight-2-and-a-glimpse-of-silverlight-3.aspx