In case you've missed it (as I had) the new version of Silverlight has been released!

Cool! Read Tim Heuers extensive post about what you need to get started quickly with SL2!

Update
Usually the first to post, Scott Guthrie waited a bit but finally posted about Silverlight 2. As we've come to know from Scott, his post is another gem, giving a great overview of the SL2 features and links to his updated series on creating a Digg-client with Silverlight 2. Awesome!

It really amazes me what Sasha Barber can do when he has to

wait in ... for a new washing machine to be delivered, so had a few hours to spare. So decided it might be fun to try and create a nice WPF screen saver. This article is the outcome of this.

Sasha sites down and writes a 3D Screensaver in WPF like it's nothing... It's pretty useless, but a heck of a lot of fun!

Another great post by Jesse Libery. He's been showing us how to create custom controls in Silverlight, he's explained the Silverlight Dependency Properties (which now closely resemble WPF Dependency Properties) and now he's going to dig into how the control conveys its visual contract to the Visual State Manager. The VSM provides an easy way to skin your controls because you simply define a couple of states and specify how your control looks in each of those.

According to Jesse himself he's not going to elaborate any further, we'll just have to wait for his level 300-400 video-tutorials...

I have to confess, this is what I really like about custom controls; the closer you look, the more there is to see. That said, I think we've gone about as far as we can without exploring this in a video, so I'll turn my attention in coming blog posts to some other emerging features.

Another great series of articles on CodeProject. This one has been on since spring this year, but somehow I had missed it. Pity, since it's pretty good. It shows how to develop your own diagram drawing tool. The first part kicks off by explaining how you could make those cool handles for resizing and rotating objects!

WPF Diagram Design Part 1
WPF Diagram Design Part 2
WPF Diagram Design Part 3
WPF Diagram Design Part 4

These Glossy Controls for Silverlight 2 look pretty awesome. It's also a hell of a first blogpost for Dave!